{"id":566767,"date":"2010-05-17T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=84960"},"modified":"2010-05-17T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:42:24","slug":"fbi%e2%80%99s-deputy-chief-to-head-transportation-security-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566767","title":{"rendered":"FBI\u2019s Deputy Chief to Head Transportation Security Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a star-crossed nomination, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/72341\/tsa-director-nominee-held-up-by-jim-demint\">having run into Senate Republican obstruction<\/a>, but President Obama thinks he&#8217;s found an unobjectionable candidate to helm the Transportation Security Administration in deputy FBI director John Pistole. Obama gives a vote of confidence in a just-released announcement of Pistole&#8217;s nomination:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The talent and knowledge John has acquired in more than two decades of service with the F.B.I. will make him a valuable asset to our administration&#8217;s efforts to strengthen the security and screening measures at our airports. I am grateful that he has agreed to take on this important role, and I look forward to working with him in the weeks and months ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-84960\"><\/span>Importantly, Pistole&#8217;s tenure at the FBI gave him a background in both counterterrorism <em>and<\/em> civil rights, a mixture increasingly important as the administration has previously waded a toe &#8212; since <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81257\/obama-backs-away-from-ethnic-profiling-at-airports\">retracted<\/a> &#8212; into <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/73704\/experts-question-efficacy-of-profiling\">ethnic profiling at airports<\/a>. Pistole also <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/84546\/feinstein-bond-no-definitive-evidence-yet-tying-pakistani-taliban-to-times-square-bomber\">spent last week on the Hill briefing lawmakers on the latest in the Faisal Shahzad attempted car-bombing case<\/a>, so he might be a reassuring figure in Congress for a crucial position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a star-crossed nomination, having run into Senate Republican obstruction, but President Obama thinks he&#8217;s found an unobjectionable candidate to helm the Transportation Security Administration in deputy FBI director John Pistole. Obama gives a vote of confidence in a just-released announcement of Pistole&#8217;s nomination: &#8220;The talent and knowledge John has acquired in more than two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}