Fri, Oct 24, 2003
The 'Peter Principle' posits that
one will continue to get promoted until one reaches his 'level of
incompetence.' With Thursday's announced promotion of the TSA's
Grand Master, James Loy, the Peter Principle's 'ceiling' may
have been shattered.
Loy, the pensioned Coast Guard Admiral who was brought in to run
the TSA after John Magaw embarrassed former boss (SecTrans)
Norman Mineta one time too many, is now being promoted within his
new shell organization, the Department of Homeland Security.
Loy will fill the post of Chief Deputy to DHS Secretary Tom
Ridge, vacated when Gordon England got the job of Secretary of the
Navy.
Loy's promotion
leapfrogs his old boss, former Representative Asa Hutchinson
(R-AR), who, pols assume, will remain in his present post,
Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security.
Loy's promotion comes as a reward for his 'work' in
catching college students who sent his agency emails about how easy
it is to smuggle contraband aboard airliners [oh, wait -- the TSA
didn't catch Mr Heatwole or find the contraband, even though they
had (but didn't act on) his e-mails for five weeks; my mistake
--ed.], and for his 'great' management skills, which resulted in
just a billion-dollar overrun of last year's already-bloated
budget.
Now, with Loy's promotion, the nation will surely look to Loy's
leadership, to streamline and invigorate all the nation's security,
the way he has so helped the airlines in the past.
There is no word yet on just who will assume Loy's old throne at
TSA.
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