jennifer, time warner cable, julio, dave nicholson, tsa acting chief of staff, michael boldin, washingtont, tsa deputy administrator, alison fitzgerald, freelance journalist. andrew stone, huffington post and speaker committee member who organize today's event. chris mclaughlin, office of security operations, rachel oswalt, global security news wire, nagin hurts of roll-call. hertz. and hnathan >> he is the unwitting face of everything americans hate about airport security in a post-911 carroll. every time we are asked to take off our shoes at the airport, pull up our laptop, or submit to an uncomfortable pat down, we have this agency to blame. he spent most of his career chasing the bad guys in the fbi, and he can take it. he said, my hope is that whatever people want to call me, they recognize that we are simply doing everything we can to work with people to provide the best possible security. the son of a church of god minister, he graduated from anderson university in indiana and in the inner -- indiana university law school in indiana. he joined the fbi in 1983 in minneapolis. he wor