John Mica

But we need accountability out of you all too. OK? It can't be window dressing. It has to be real.

I want you to report to the committee quarterly, OK?

I suggest you might tell the Secretary to find some of them to go into the important oversight responsibility for the transit systems.

I guess the non-classified is about 30 percent have returned over 200 to re-slaughter Americans, re-slaughter innocent people.

I thought it was fitting to get them back there because they behead them, and I thought that was adequate due process.

In fact, the press asked me what I thought when I left, and I think it is a quote my kids put on the refrigerator. Their dad said--my response was 'it is too good for the bastards.'

I am a supporter of the civil service system, and it was set up decades and decades ago to protect civil servants, public employees, from abuse, being politically abused, being relieved of their positions.

What they said was well intended but they're late at the gate.

It is just a huge fail in government programs and it will fail.

You need to set the rules for the screening, oversee it, and audit it and let the private sector do it.

These are other reasons why we failed to connect the dots in the past, and failing to connect the dots in the future is a concern.

But I do know that known terrorists have gotten through the system. That concerns me.

I can tell you it is yes because I have tested the system, and I have ordered more tests of the system for the first time in years and will reconfirm that.

I disagree with the gentleman who last spoke.

I am an advocate of private screening under Federal supervision, which hopefully could make better decisions.

We have gone from a risk-based system down to shaking and thoroughly examining everyone and no Plan B.

We need to pare those numbers down.

It is actually staffing.

I think that I would like an outline to the committee.

We have lost control of our borders, and your system that protects us and the main computer system has been down, down, and down.

TSA provides a layer of protection. Once they get past that, then we have got secure cockpit doors, we have got air marshals, we have got pilots who are armed.

Nobody understands the significance of what you confirmed today on this intel and analysis situation because that is the only thing, I think, that will save us.

We need different models. Alaska is different from Wyoming is different from JFK, et cetera, and the flexibility to do that with the right balance of public-private operations.

I dealt with them in privatizing one of my airports.

We need a better way of rewarding and retaining the good TSO workers, get rid of some of the bureaucrats at the top who are causing most of the problems.