You Get the Department of Homeland Stupidity You Deserve
by Lewis DerkinsJuly 31st, 2008, 8:38 pm
I’ve been thinking, we need to establish a new category labeled “Awesome” and file this one under it.
It seems Sonia Pitt, one of the clowns associated with the I-10 bridge collapse debacle, has been hired by the Department of Homeland Stupidity.
Ms. Pitt
was fired from her Minnesota post for unprofessional conduct, travel improprieties and misuse of state resources.
Pitt’s letter of discharge states she engaged in activities that violated MnDOT’s ethics code and was involved in “activities that cannot withstand public scrutiny without embarrassment. … do not safeguard the public trust in the integrity of MnDOT, and undermine public trust in the Department.”
After the bridge collapse Aug. 1, Pitt didn’t return to Minnesota for nearly two weeks, even as emergency officials struggled to recover the bodies of 13 people killed in the disaster.
Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles opened an investigation into Pitt’s activities after Star Tribune stories on her actions and found that she was a “belligerent, aggressive” employee who abused her position and billed the state for thousands of dollars in excessive compensation for airfare, hotels, mileage and personal cell phone calls.
Awesome. Were all of those bullet points on her resume?
Here’s the best part – guess where she’s going?
[S]he is working for Homeland Security’s Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) at its headquarters in Arlington, Va. Her job title is “Transportation Security Specialist.”
Great. I’m sure a “specialist” like this will really help to clean up our problems with all the abusive screeners, sex offenders, thieves, people asleep at the wheel, and the general morons staffing this agency.
When will the Terribly Stupid Administration, and the entire Department of Homeland Stupidity, die the slow, brutal deaths they deserve?
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I’m working on it.
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Don’t get me wrong. If the TSA hired competent people, got rid of the idiotic, rear view mirror, non-safety-increasing practices (like concentrating their efforts on liquids and shoe bombs), stopped caving to political correctness by frisking old women, babies, veterans, and everyone else who’s clearly not a terrorist, and implemented forward-looking procedures so that they’re always one step ahead of the bad guys, I’d have no problem with the organization. But remember last year, when the TSA in Denver missed 90% of bombs/IEDs during an undercover test? This is the problem. And hiring riff-raff like Sonia Pitt doesn’t make me feel any safer.
These problems are not new. From shortly after 9/11:
Interview with Dick Dubrova, Air Transport Association
http://www.johnandkenshow.com/audio/files/dickdubrova.wmx
Interview with Brian Lott, Argenbright Security
http://www.johnandkenshow.com/audio/files/argenbright.wmx
Listen to the doublespeak, talking points, backpedaling, and evasion of tough questions from these two officials and tell me you’re not thoroughly petrified.