You, senator. Youre now recognized sen to senator from tennessee. Can you tell me how many tsa employees make a hundred thousand or more a year . I will have to get that for you. Can you make a rough guess . I can make a rough guess. I dont really know, sir. Let me ask this, do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i have restrict it had number of bonus that is we do. I will get you the exact number but it was a significant smaller number and based upon performance, not based upon special act awards. Can you tell me, have you personally fired any employee tsa employees for misconduct or rudeness or incompetence since youve been in the office . There have been a number of people who have been fired from the agency at all levels. I came in and one of my first tasks was to determined what my agency looked like. I hold my leaders and demanded and i am confident of my team and im confident of team to help lead that team. Today i have been satis
Eer. H. And if anybody pops up in any category, it allows you to take a harder look at them which we do. We go back to the Intelligence Community and to the fbi and we do a scrib on those individuals. We have the methods, there is higher level of sensibility here, allowing these folks to actually work inside of secure areas . Yes, sir. That was exactly the question i had about that. Ive been working closely with director comey and the National Counterterrorism center to mr. Roth, you did a great job on the screening tests the a the big airports and you know, we had, we have very high failure rate the last time of that test. And i know, im not sure of enough time has gone by to allow admiral neffenger to sort of adopt a new protocol among the screeners. Has that happened yet . Have you done any new tests to take a measurement how were doing . Sure, what weve done is two things. One is a natural followup we would do any audit. For example, with regard to the Penetration Testing we have r
We do immediate feet back and do that consistently. Workforce readiness and performance and workforce accountability. We changed that. Its no longer based upon how long the lines are. Thats a separate issue. We deal with that at the management level. For the frontline workforce, i want you to know they will focus on the mission and support them with the best possible training and train them on the equipment and how it operates and gave them hands on understanding of what the limitations were. There is a fuller interest that i will provide. The gentlemen from tennessee for five minutes. Can you me how many tsa employees make 100,000 or more a year . I will have to get that number. Can you make a rough guess . I dont really know. I will have to get it for the record. Do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i restricted the number of bonuses we do. It was a significantly smaller number based on performance and not special act awards. Have yo
Ill have the latest sports fuse, the day of 2015 is one to forget for chelsea, well tell yo you why they are only just top the premier league. Egypts highest court has order add retrial for three al jazeera journalists who have been in jail for more than a year. Its sited procedure flaws in their original trial. But the three remain in custody and its not clear when they will be back in court. Mohamed fahmy and peter greste were arrested on the 29th of desks 2013. They were falsely accused of aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and damaging egypts reputation abroad. They were convicted in june. They were sentenced to seven years in jail, bahar to ten years because he had a spent bull that he picked up. Their detention and convictions sparked protests and condemn face around the world. They never saw a minute of freedom the 2014, and with the start of a new year they remain imprisoned. Despite an Appeals Court granted a retrial peter greste, and fahmy are still behind bars. We luck t
2015. We begin this news hour in egypt where the first day of the new year has offered the prospect of a resolution for three al jazeera journalists who spent all of last year in a cairo prison. Egypts court has ordered a retrial for the journalists but they will remain in custody. The retrial could get underway in a month, but no telling how long it could take. The journalists werent present whether the decision was made but the lawyers will seek bail for the three falsely accused and convicted of spreading propaganda in support of the Muslim Brotherhood. Reporter they never saw a minute of freedom in 2014 and with the start of a new year they remain imprisoned. Despite an Appeals Court in cairo granting a retrial theyre still behind bars. The judge in thursdays session said it was not in his power to grant bail. Translator we welcomed to the courts decision to accept the appeal of our journalists, but at the same time we demand that they are immediately released. They are unjustly im