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Prepare for Martial law, Obama to nominate black ex-Army general to head TSA, sources say.

Posted on: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:22:14 +0000 (UTC)

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/07/new.tsa.chief/

Washington (CNN) -- President Obama has tapped a former Army general to
lead the Transportation Security Administration, sources have told CNN.

Obama plans to nominate Robert A. Harding, a retired major general with
33 years in the Army, to become the TSA administrator, sources said.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce
the nomination Monday with Harding by her side, according to one
administration official.

"The TSA administrator is the most important unfilled post in the Obama
administration," one administration official said. "Mr. Harding has the
experience and perspective to make a real difference in carrying out the
mission of the agency."

"If there was ever a nominee that warranted expedited, but detailed,
consideration in the Senate, this is it," the official said.

In September, Obama nominated Erroll Southers, a Los Angeles airport
police department official, to head the agency. But Republican Sen. Jim
DeMint, R-South Carolina, spearheaded GOP efforts to block the
nomination based on concerns Southers would unionize airport screeners.

Southers withdrew his nomination in January after lawmakers questioned
his changing explanation about a personnel action taken against him
decades ago.

Harding would be the TSA's first African-American administrator.
Southers also is black.

Harding has served as CEO of Harding Security Associates, a defense and
intelligence government contractor that he founded in 2003 and sold in
July 2009.

From 1996 to 2000, Harding was director for operations at the Defense
Intelligence Agency, where he was the Defense Department's senior human
intelligence officer.

Before that, he was director for intelligence for the Army's Southern
Command.

The TSA was created in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and
soon took over security at the nation's airports, including screening
commercial airline passengers and luggage.

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