TSA author wants agency disbanded

Florida Representative John Mica (R), author of the legislation that created the Transportation Security Administration, has now called for its dissolution ten years later.

Rep. Mica is Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and has also been in the news of late owing to his role in the brief shutdown of the FAA last month over the costs involved in the Essential Air Services program.

He now believes that the TSA should be shut down and replaced by private sector employees, a condition that prevailed prior to 9/11 and was blamed for lax enforcement that made the attacks possible. Citing the TSA's 9 billion dollar cost and payroll of over 62,000 he commented that "They've failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years," and he gives the organization a grade of D-.