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MAGAW, WHO SUBMITTED his resignation at the request of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, will be replaced by the agency’s chief operating officer, retired Coast Guard Commandant James M. Loy, MSNBC’s Robert Hager reported from Washington.
Mineta issued a statement after MSNBC reported the ouster, praising Magaw, calling him “a dedicated public servant with a lifetime of achievement in the law enforcement field.”
The TSA inherited responsibility for aviation security from the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Faced with a daunting series of congressional mandates to enact tough new measures to make it safer to fly, the agency has consistently fallen short of meeting its deadlines.
MSNBC.com reported in March, for example, that the agency would miss a Dec. 31. deadline to install electronic baggage scanning devices in all TSA-supervised airports by as much as three years, a failure TSA officials have since acknowledged in congressional testimony
Mineta issued a statement after MSNBC reported the ouster, praising Magaw, calling him “a dedicated public servant with a lifetime of achievement in the law enforcement field.”
The TSA inherited responsibility for aviation security from the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Faced with a daunting series of congressional mandates to enact tough new measures to make it safer to fly, the agency has consistently fallen short of meeting its deadlines.
MSNBC.com reported in March, for example, that the agency would miss a Dec. 31. deadline to install electronic baggage scanning devices in all TSA-supervised airports by as much as three years, a failure TSA officials have since acknowledged in congressional testimony