Byron writes on the continuing resistance by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. to the nomination of Erroll Southers to the top TSA spot. DeMint’s opposition based on Southers’s attitude toward unionization of TSA is now bolstered by the revelation that Southers misled Congress about an old incident in which, while serving as an FBI agent in the late 1980s, he used a government criminal database to spy on his estranged wife’s boyfriend.
The real question is why, in searching for a nominee to head an agency that will keep personal information on so many Americans, President Obama cannot do better than someone who behaved so dishonestly when previously given access to such information — and who, years later, would dishonestly represent his dishonest actions.
