Jaunted

2007 Awards: Best Villain

12/31/2007 at 10:00 AM
Tags: 2007 Jaunted Travel Awards, TSA, Kip Hawley, Security, Airport Security (all tags)

As much as we hate to do it, this award goes out to Kip Hawley for the second year in a row. Had he unintentionally sent another email criticizing his customers, maybe Ben Baldanza would grab the prize. But for overseeing the TSA through 2007, Hawley takes it again.

Doesn't the agency have an incredibly difficult job? Sure it does. But the TSA can keep planes safe without meaningless (and randomly enforced) liquid bans, behavioral profiling (that doesn't work) and data mining. If Hawley wants to avoid the hat trick in '08, he could start by implementing smart, effective security that's proactive not reactive.