A new report
summarizing three years of from the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee on the TSA calls out the agency for its “toxic
leadership culture, misconduct, mismanagement, whistleblower retaliation
and obstruction,” citing these as the reason for the agency’s 20%
annual attrition rates.
The report was a long time coming, faced many hurdles and featured many
lowlights, like the 2016 testimony of Office of the Chief Risk Officer
program manager Mark Livingston, who described working for the TSA as
like “Lord of the Flies; you either attack or be attacked.”
