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Obama To Nominate Former Army General To Lead TSA

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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker President Barack Obama yesterday announced his intention to nominate Robert Harding, a former Army general, to be the next chief of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which has been without a politically appointed leader for more than a year. The administration praised Harding's experience in national security and with the intelligence community as an asset to the Department of Homeland Security. Harding, who retired as a major general from the Army in 2001 as the deputy for…

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