By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — The airline bombing incident in Detroit perhaps highlighted the importance of confirming a new director for the Transportation Security Administration, the front line agency responsible for airport security and passenger screening.
But things aren’t so simple here in Washington. First off, a Senator has been holding up the confirmation hearings for Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent, to head TSA, saying he wants to hear his views on TSA employees joining a union. The senator is against employees doing that.
Now the Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow Jr. is reporting that Southers “gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws” while he was an FBI agent.
The Post reported that Southers described inconsistencies in his accounts to Congress on the 20-year-old incident as “inadvertent”.
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