The other problem with Obama’s TSA nominee

Published January 1, 2010 5:00am ET



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.

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