TSA, not flying high fiscally, looks for cash




By KENDRA MARR | 10/10/11 10:44 PM EDT

The Transportation Security Administration isn’t making many friends.

If long screening lines, privacy invasions and other TSA-inflicted indignities weren’t enough, the agency now faces a funding battle. A decade since the agency was created in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, a debate is raging over the cost of aviation security and who should foot the bill.


[b]Even Rep. John Mica, the Florida Republican who set up the agency, is now pushing to dismantle and privatize what he calls his “little bastard child.â€