non-traditional, very small contract with tfa that actually is about helping us change the paradyme, the tsa board asked me to come and speak on richard's behalf, probably six or seven months ago and talked about how they want to shift the relationship that they have with the districts from just staffing people with tsa teachers to really looking at how they can be a supportive partner around all of the leadership development activities for the teachers and this was an opportunity for us with the sales force grant, who also really wanted to promote the partnership work and look at different ways of partnering with tsa and who does have an interest in our school district and being a partner, but in a different way than they have in the past. so we felt, the superintendent and i, and others working on this felt that this was a good opportunity, for a very small amounts of money to look at a different way of working together and it is a part of an over all initiative that if you want more information, i can, and i think that we sent it to the board before but it is an over all initiative with the mid

the case? without a tsa review board, once they reviewed some of these misconduct cases, they either overturned or rolled back the penalty in 15% of the cases. we look at over 800 of these cases. business suggests the need for more consistency in the process. a second key point is tsa needs to do a better job of recording the results of its adjudication and its so-called integrated database. we found, only visited seven airports. five we interview the staff. they weren't using the so-called integrated database to record all the incidents. recording the outcome of these cases is important, especially when tsa employees move across airports. you really need to know what their track record is if you're going to have any disciplinary issues with them. thirdly, tsa needs to do a better job of tracking the time taken to not only investigate the cases, but adjudicate them. i call that the start to finish guide. we really need a little more awareness how long it's taken to close these cases it and it's interesting to note while tsa has standards, and expects its debt to comply with them it really doesn

bright blue, and frequent fliers know them instantly as the people standing between us passengers and actually boarding an airplane. there was no tsa before 9/11 and they have grown big and powerful in just the years since. most of the time they do their work without incident, but tonight there is new trouble. it is a government report out about wrongdoing in the tsa for failing to discipline airport screeners who break the rules, and that ranges from sleeping on the job to letting friends and baggage through, to stealing from passengers. it is where we begin tonight with our justice correspondent pete williams. he's at washington national. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. the number two official of the tsa acknowledged today that it has its share of what he calls knuckle heads. the issues, are they disciplined consistently and do the worst offenders get the harshest punishment? example, says the government accountability office, an airport screener caught on surveillance video, running carry-ons through a metal detector without stopping to review each image, suspended 30 days. at another airport, a screener wa

the intent of this program is to keep us safe. and we cannot wait until there is a bomber boarding a jet in order to react at the airport with some tsaeener. >> laura: why not have a police state then? if that's our goal? we could have 100% security. we do have a fourth amendment. we do have due process treated like criminals. >> nobody is advocating for that. and i think though that at the end of the day you have to remember that we cannot have a government where the republicans just trust bush to do the right thing and the democrats. >> i agree with that. >> obama to do the right thing. we have to have an oversight committee that's aggressive in making sure that these programs are designed to only go after the terrorists. and those that are helping them. we should not be spying on every day americans. but, at the end of the day, you have to look at big data and you have to go through the big data in order to get to the international terrorists and those that support him. >> laura: we also have the issue of information sharing between agencies that we didn't think were going to share information. irs, dea, and. >> that's very proble

the general public on board? what practical and pragmatic steps can be taken and second, given your time at tsa come easy to identify some of the challenges and very difficult to be in the position where you have to have those conversations with the general public and would be advising the next administrator of tsa? >> i will start with of the third one which is easy and that is i hope the next administrator is a person named john pistole who has a ten year term and we have the stability of the leader that understands risk management and understands the security and think that would be a good place to start. going back to how do we get the public on board and win back the public, i look at israel and everybody comes back and wants to talk about profiling or the interview they get or the israeli security. but to me, the fundamental premise is that the israeli people and the security services are totally together. and that is a power way beyond what you combine with scanning pat-down. that is a core of learning that i had an understanding about how israel as its security and i think that for the united states this is

tsa cleared him, as well did the nypd. but jetblue under the assumption he was muslim would not allow him to board the flight. >> how frequently does stuff like this happen? what do non-muslim people need to know about the difficulty of flying while muslim or hindu, which people have mistaken for being muslim? >> unfortunately, this is a frequent occurrence. from personal experiences, being so-called randomly selected at the airport, as well as various incidents in the media of people being targeted because perhaps the name sounds foreign or they speak another language. it happens quite often and makes traveling for a lot of americans a complete nightmare. they are forced to undergo prolonged security measures and extensive invasive interviews merely because of a religion they identify with. so i would say it is pretty often. >> when it comes to doing something about this, is this something that needs to be addressed legislatively with new laws to protect muslims? or by repealing laws that allow them to be targeted to begin with? where do we go to tackle this? >> alternately i do not think the focus should be on muslims. this

tsa a lot.ked about what has been your analysis in reviewing other components with respect to claims of misconduct? is it higher, lower, in the middle, or can you provide direction to the board? can you -- >> the body of work we have conducted at this point has not focused. what has been your analysis in reviewing other components on md allegations, even with the tea tax job and the project we conducted, we basically looked at pre-adjudication. the policies and procedures in place to make sure credible allegations were able to enter the process as far as how agencies -- >> you really cannot. ok. to the increase in change the did you matrix for review or is it the same matrix all along? >> i'm not sure i understand your question. you had a 26% increase? >> over threes -- over three years. that is what the data shows. yous that the same generally do? >> we did not do the analysis but it is important to recognize all of the costumes of border per section. they have different organization set up here it will be difficult to make direct comparisons. for the purposes of our report, we did not include the information. it was outside the scope. >> prepared to come in for work, that