TSA Administrator Pistole to Retire After More Than 4 Years at Helm

By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John Pistole, head of the TSA, will retire after leading the agency for more than four years, Reuters reports. Pistole was in charge of 60,000 employees and security operations at more than 415 airports nationwide. Pistole “has been integral in leading TSA’s transformation to a risk-based, intelligence-driven counterterrorism agency dedicated to…

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9/11 Changed Career for Ex-FBI Agent John Pistole: He Now Heads TSA

Also read AP Story: TSA Chief Optimistic About Everything But Terror        By Tim Evans Indianapolis Star Anderson native John Pistole was an FBI agent performing routine audits of the agency’s local offices when the terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Counterterrorism wasn’t exactly Pistole’s area of expertise. Nonetheless, he was quickly pulled into…

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TSA Now Checking All Passengers Against Terror Watch List

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary  Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that 100 percent of passengers on flights within or bound for the U.S. are now being checked against government watchlists, fulfilling a key 9/11 Commission recommendation a month ahead of schedule. A Homeland Security press release said that Transportation Security Administration reached…

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Color-Coded Terror Alerts Might Get Scrapped

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The color-coded terror alerts  that began eight years ago after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks could be headed for the trash bin. The Associated Press reports that the Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the the five-color coded system, with green representing the lowest threat and red the…

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