Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:32:04 PM
The president is trying his best to balance our global image, our constitutional heritage, and our security needs realizing that paranoia and xenophobia are not only unproductive but counter-productive to the mission at hand.
Part of the CIA’s problem is that since the Stansfield Turner era under Carter, we have progressively hamstrung the agency’s manpower with encumbering it with affirmative action programs. This is not just another government agency. It worked best when bright, patriotic, stoic, and well educated young men of good families quietly worked there to assure our national security.
Errol Southers nomination as TSA chief should be stopped dead in its tracks. A man who has repeatedly abused his authority to run background checks on individuals to grind a personal axe (in his case, on his former wife’s lovers) should be prosecuted and jailed, not put in charge of a vital component of national security. On top of that. Mr. Southers wants to unionize TSA, something unheard of in front line agencies. Frankly, public employees being unionized is wrong in principle and potentially dangerous in practice.