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
General roth for his support. I greatly value the oversight that his office provides to improve our agency and i have been working closely with him during my tenure. My Leadership Perspective is shaped by more than three decades of National Service in crisis leadership. Throughout my career i have emphasized professional integrity and duty to mission as foundational elements of service for myself and for the dedicated Civil Servants and military members i have been entrusted to lead. Since taking the oath of office on july 4th of last year i have traveled throughout the country and throughout the world to meet with employees at all levels of our agency. Ive been impressed by their patriotism and their sense of duty. These are servants who every day perform demanding tasks under difficult circumstances, and i deeply respect and appreciate their work. They have risen to the challenge of service to a mission and have taken an oath of office and loyalty as a condition of employment. Their
Confirmation that one of the worlds most wanted terrorists has been killed. Killed. Last night the pentagon announced an airstrike targeting the man known as jihadi john. His real name is mohammedemwazi, youll remember hes the one who appeared in a series of isis execution videos, taunting western leaders in a british accent. U. S. Officials say the strike followed what they called persistent surveillance. Speaking this morning secretary of state john kerry called the stike a warning for isis. We are still assessing the result of the strikes, but the terrorists associated with daesh need to know this your days are numbered and you will be defeated. Defeated. Daesh is another name for isis. While the u. S. Is confident theyve killed emwazi, british leaders arent yet as sure. We cannot yet be certain if the strike was successful but let me be clear ive always said that we would do whatever was necessary, whatever it took to track down emwazi and to stop him taking the lives of others. Ot