washingtonpost.com — Erroll Southers, the White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration, gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.
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grimeeJan 1, 2010
Seriously...can this administration choose any honest people to fill our nation's most important roles? Geitner = tax cheat... Southers = Lying criminal.
merton42Jan 2, 2010
Ferretman, You said ,"If the man had any integrity he'd withdraw his nomination immediately." Are you a practitioner of ironic sarcasm? I'm kidding. Don't we all get tired of this parade of nincompoops and crooks, masquerading as good civil servants?!? I know damn good and well the Dem. party has to have some honest, hardworking people in it. But where the hell are they?
methdwman3Jan 2, 2010
The initial offense is slimy enough - using our taypayer funded resources to get dirt on a personal situation - but then he lies about it to Congress? Not exactly the guy I want near anything security related.
markglJan 4, 2010
It seems when he was an FBI agent he accessed his ex-wife's boyfriend's criminal record, and he wasn't authorized to do that. That was 20 years ago, and now everyone is up in arms about it.I would have thought that a year into our administration, most people would have figured out how we work. See, Big Guy comes from Chicago, where the old fable about the fox guarding the hen house is taken pretty seriously as an approach to good government. Big O nominated Timmy Geithner, who was a tax cheat, to oversee our economy and tax policy. Who better to understand how to stop cheaters, than to hire one of the best cheaters in the country to run the agency? Democrats hate the Pentagon, so who better than a Republican, Bob Gates, to run DoD, since he probably respects the military? Who better to understand the lax border policies of DHS than a governor who encouraged lax border policies, and now you have the perfect job for former Arizona governor Bruno.So in the case of TSA, you have Souther, who clearly doesn't respect anyone's privacy. nominated for a job that will allow him, thanks to full body screening machines, to see just about everyone's most intimate privates whenever he wants. Who better to know what to do with all those photos? This is just the way Chicago political mind works, but sometimes you don't need to pretzel logic it that much. After a strong, effective Vice President like Dick Cheney, Big Guy simply went in the opposite direction. Hence the Biden pick. --TOTUS
rthakidnJan 4, 2010
@SiszanGreat, and since we had to get rid of that nasty Bush because he's unethical and greedy. We should get rid of Obama for the same reason, since he does EVERYTHING (according to you) that Bush did.
rthakidnJan 4, 2010
He doesn't know any, how could he pick them?