[Infowarrior] - Top TSA Officials Also Ran Private Consulting Firm

[Richard Forno]

(c/o Anonymous)


Via Pajamas Media:

 Top TSA Officials in Cheating Scandal Also Ran Private Consulting Firm
 http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/top_tsa_officials_in_cheating.php

Excerpt:

 Most top-salaried government officials remain anonymous suits
 behind the scenes - unless they get caught in a scandal. The
 name Mike Restovich became public last fall when the security
 operations assistant administrator for the Transportation Security
 Administration (TSA) was caught encouraging colleagues to cheat
 on covert bomb detection tests being performed by the Federal
 Aviation Administration (FAA).

 Congress ordered hearings. TSA chief Kip Hawley and Mike
 Restovich were both ordered to testify, but only Hawley showed
 up. Restovich was removed from his position and sent overseas
 to work as "DHS attache' to the United Kingdom."

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 But that's not all.

 Pajamas Media has learned that Michael "Mike" Restovich and fellow
 TSA senior executive Morris "Mo" McGowan ran a private security
 consulting company while working as high-ranking officials with
 TSA. Their company, Group 2M Consulting, LLC, was filed with
 the office of the secretary of state of Texas on April 15, 2004,
 a copy of which can be downloaded here:

 At the time, Mike Restovich was the federal security director of
 Dallas Love Field Airport. Morris "Mo" McGowan was the assistant
 federal security director.

 Both men held then, and apparently continue to hold now, top
 secret security clearances with the U.S. government. Consulting
 in the private sector simultaneously is in direct conflict with
 federal policy and specifically prohibited by two statutes of
 Department of Homeland Security employment contracts, a copy of
 which was obtained by Pajamas Media (available here, with the
 relevant paragraphs highlighted in yellow)

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