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Obama Plans To Nominate Southers To Lead TSA

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Monday, September 14th, 2009

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President Obama last week announced his intent to nominate Erroll Southers as Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Southers is currently the Assistant Chief for Homeland Security and Intelligence at the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, the largest airport police department in the United States. He is also Associate Director at the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events at the University of Southern California. Southers has also served as Deputy Director of Homeland Security…

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