mr. oosterbaan. the chair now recognizes himself for five minutes of questioning, and i must say that much of your testimony, mr. oosterbaan, is troubling indeed, but i hope it's not indicative, and we don't think it is indicative, of the vast majority of tsos and employees at the tsa, but it does show the egregiousness of some of the infractions that concern all of us here and we must do absolutely everything we can to make sure that they are dealt with correctly, judiciously, speedily, and that they are minimized. with that, dr. gowadia, there's nearly 60,000 employees, right, at the tsa, 450 airports, and we're talking about a workforce that allegedly, there's alleged committed misconduct of almost half the numbers of those employees. nearly 27,000. now, they are allegations, they are allegations, but a lot of folks, myself included, we kind of believe where there's smoke there's fire, right? and then you have the case where 14, 16, and 18 allegations on one or more employees. in fact, 1270 employ

mr. oosterbaan. the chair now recognizes himself for five minutes of questioning, and i must say that much of your testimony, mr. oosterbaan, is troubling indeed, but i hope it's not indicative, and we don't think it is indicative, of the vast majority of tsos and employees at the tsa, but it does show the egregiousness of some of the infractions that concern all of us here and we must do absolutely everything we can to make sure that they are dealt with correctly, judiciously, speedily, and that they are minimized. with that, dr. gowadia, there's nearly 60,000 employees, right, at the tsa, 450 airports, and we're talking about a workforce that allegedly, there's alleged committed misconduct of almost half the numbers of those employees. nearly 27,000. now, they are allegations, they are allegations, but a lot of folks, myself included, we kind of believe where there's smoke there's fire, right? and then you have the case where 14, 16, and 18 allegations on one or more employees. in fact, 1270 employ

mr. oosterbaan. mr. oosterbaan, you work for mr. roth and who does he report to? >> the report report is different than in some contexts. >> who are you accountable to in >> we work fwr the department of homeland security and therefore the secretary. although there is a different reporting that is done for the ig. >> what does that mean? >> that means that our independence is critically important and there is a limited amount of control the secretary has over the ig. >> thank you very much. so there were a thousand complaints that were referred with you with regard to t.s.a. of which your office those to take on 40 of those complaints? >> that is correct. >> of those 40 allegations, how many resulted in action? >> i don't have that specific information, i regret. we generally are not involved in that so we generally "do not track" that information. >> all right. so there were 960 other allegations of misconduct that are referred some place else that includes things like -- does that include tardiness and taking leave without permission? >> correct. >> i am sorry,