John S. Pistole: “I want our TSO to be better than privatized workers, and I believe our focus should be on how we achieve that.”

At the same time, TSA must remain respectful of personal privacy, dignity and civil rights and liberties, areas that are priorities for me.

we must reduce the vulnerabilities in our transportation system by establishing risk-based approaches and by using sound intelligence in making decisions and in carrying out our operations.

If he wasn't the president of the United States, yeah, I think we would have seen obstruction indictment against the person.

TSA employs risk-based, intelligence-driven operations to prevent terrorist attacks and to reduce the vulnerability of the Nation's transportation system to terrorism.