John Pistole Quotes

John Pistole — American Public Servant

John S. Pistole is the former Administrator of the United States Transportation Security Administration and a former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is currently the President of Anderson University... (wikipedia)

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

John Pistole Quotes

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