Acting TSA Administrator Melvin Carraway has been removed from office after a report found airport security employees failed 95 percent of internal tests.
In 67 of the 70 internal tests, undercover agents were able to pass through Transportation Security Administration security checkpoints with fake explosive and weapons at almost all of America’s busiest airports.
Carraway has been reassigned to serve in another area of Homeland Security.
“Effective immediately, Melvin Carraway, the Acting Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration, will be reassigned to serve in the Office of State and Local Law Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement. “Acting Deputy Director, Mark Hatfield will lead TSA until a new Acting Administrator is appointed. I thank Melvin Carraway for his eleven years of service to TSA and his 36 years of public service to this nation.”
Carraway had been the acting TSA administrator since the end of 2014, when John Pistole resigned after four years in office.
Coast Guard Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger was nominated by President Obama in April to lead the TSA, but the Senate has not yet approved the pick.
