TSA RAMPING UP BORDER DIVERSIONS: A House Oversight hearing featuring TSA Administrator David Pekoske made several pieces of news on Tuesday, and your MT host was there to try to sum up a messy, expanding situation. TSA has now sent more than 350 employees to the southern border to assist DHS efforts, and has approved almost 300 more. That’s according to Chairman Elijah Cummings, who also said the agency had written in a letter last week that it was aware of “potential increased risk to in-flight security.”
