Larry Dighera wrote:

What aspect of Admiral Stone's departure from TSA do you find relevant
and worthy of discussion here?

For GA? Probably little to none. Someone else, I'm sure, will take over
the job of harassing pilots and controllers with ADIZs and such.

I've heard from a reliable source that the Teterboro FSDO was tasked with
"violating" the [too, admittedly] many pilots that violated the NY airspace
restrictions during the Republican Convention. The result was FSDO people
chasing down pilots instead of inspecting operations at the airports like
EWR.

But I've never located a reference for this. Anyone happen to have one?

With respect to the current story, one item I found particularly amusing was
that screener jobs may return to the private market. It seems that this
federal security effort was just another of many jobs the federal
government is completely incapable of handling. They took it on only to
fail.

So they hand it back to private industry from whom the government was
supposedly saving us. The major change from before is that there will now
be a liability limit. So if the screeners permit a terrorist with a
nuclear weapon to sneak aboard, they cannot be held liable.

A complete joke, except we're the joke's butt.

The only decent thing about this are comments like "We need to step back and
look at the billions of dollars we spent on the system, which doesn't
provide much more protection than we had before 9/11" from John Mica. If
only he and his peers would turn their attentions to the abuses heaped upon
GA.

- Andrew