Comments on: Dulles TSA Chief Busted for DWI

Dulles TSA Chief Busted for DWI

cpfeifer — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:48:52 -0800

Charles Brady, TSA chief for Dulles Airport, was stopped at 1a by Airport Police near Dulles airport and charged with DWI. Brady was scheduled for Orange Alert Duty on New Year's Eve until 2a, and contends that he was stopped at 2:30a (30mins after his shift ended). I feel safer already!

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:04:22 -0800

Side note: I feel safer already! First time opening link, "need to ask you some questions", Washington post info, second time no problem.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:09:40 -0800

Is this a security problem, or this guy's personal problem? Ask that as we all have feet of clay being human. Anyone ever have to work New Year's Eve and participated in the celebration while on the clock? [raises hand: then looks at current employee handbook which says, alcohol at lunch is ok as long as it does not affect "work performance".]

By: tippiedog

tippiedog — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:12:49 -0800

Anyone ever have to work New Year's Eve and participated in the celebration while on the clock? I'll bite with the obvious answer: yes, but I'm not responsible for the safety of thousands of air travelers during an ORANGE terror alert, at an airport that had earlier that day had an airline escorted in by fighters, etc.

By: callmejay

callmejay — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:14:38 -0800

Maybe he's color-blind and thought it was a mauve terror alert or something.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:52:27 -0800

Maybe he heard "Orange JUICE alert" and had a few screwdrivers as per procedure.

By: cpfeifer

cpfeifer — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:52:45 -0800

I can understanad a bit of holiday fun as thomcatspike brings up, but tippiedog has a point. This guy doesn't dig ditches or empty garbage cans for a living. While he isn't actually picking through people's luggage, he is responsible for all security at Dulles airport during his shift. If your judgement is impaired beyond the point of safely operating heavy machinery in public, maybe you shouldn't be making high-level policy decisions either. This really doesn't help the TSA which has come under fire previously for incomplete background checks on security screeners (NYC, others).

By: ElvisJesus

ElvisJesus — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:02:36 -0800

Is this a security problem, or this guy's personal problem? Both

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:23:25 -0800

"Errr. Yellow... With wedged shapes inside... "Errrrr..." "So you see these signs too Dr. Black?" "Why sure, Mrs. - errrrrr - Rectangular..."

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:24:05 -0800

"I feel better already!"

By: quonsar

quonsar — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:57:46 -0800

Anyone ever have to work New Year's Eve and participated in the celebration while on the clock? i simply refuse to tell that story. but "unmitigated disaster" pretty much sums it up.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:00:31 -0800

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue." /AirplaneFilter

By: milovoo

milovoo — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:09:11 -0800

First time opening link, "need to ask you some questions", Washington post info, second time no problem. Ahh, the wonder of cookies.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:22:07 -0800

Agree as mentioned above: his problem has severely jeopardized his responsibilities.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:22:58 -0800

milovoo, good one.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:23:34 -0800

And he owns an Almanac.

By: JoanArkham

JoanArkham — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:38:22 -0800

I doubt that the fact that one guy was drunk, even the boss, made the airport unsafe. Still...it just looks bad, ya know?

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:38:44 -0800

It's not much better in Philadelphia.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:32:06 -0800

> First time opening link, "need to ask you some questions", Washington post info, > second time no problem. If and only if you answer the questions the first time.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:19:47 -0800

This is like a surgeon showing up drunk to the operating table. Yes, happy new year indeed. This guy is going to take a lot of unwarranted heat for the ills committed in the name of "homeland defense" -- note the nascent connection between the BritAir travellers and his condition. This guy -should- be strung up by the highest pole for his violation of the public trust, however. I'm not expecting all these guys to be clean-cut "g" men the guy in charge of organizing things when That One Alarm Nobody Likes To Talk About goes off when he's on-call. This isn't about delivering pizza, its about protecting lives. Obviously Charles made himeself a bad decision -- hopefully one that blows his security clearance and very publicly removes him from his post.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:22:43 -0800

Cmon dudes, I have seen pilots getting shitfaced at Portland International often. It's not a problem, because they don't really do much with the plane besides fly it. Anyways, pilots who don't go across countries make less than 30k a year now, so why not get drunk between flights? It's probably the only way they can go on.

By: NorthernLite

NorthernLite — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:46:59 -0800

Brady was scheduled for Orange Alert Duty on New Year's Eve until 2a, and contends that he was stopped at 2:30a (30mins after his shift ended). And between 2:01 and 2:29 a.m. he got drunk enough to be noticed by the cops?

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:11:52 -0800

Northern Lite, you must be familiar with the expression cheap date.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 05:59:59 -0800

Um.... it seems quite likely to me that he could have gotten drunk after his shift ended, rather then during it. You don't have to be that drunk to be "noticed" by the police. My car has been pulled over twice (once with me driving, another time by a friend) Both times we were totaly sober. (once, I missed the tail end of a yellow light, and the other time the window fogged up and my friend started playing with the defroster, while trending out of his lane) So you don't need to be that drunk, or drunk at all to be pulled over as a suspected drunk. You also don't need to drink that much to be legaly over the limit. 3 beers could easly put you over .18. In other words, its very plausable that he started drinking after his shift. With no other evidence, claming that he was drunk while "responsible for people's lives" is a little assinine. In fact, I'd be willing to be that most of you complaning arn't even afraid of terrorists anyway, and simply don't like the TSA. ---- On the other hand, Drunk drivers are much more of a danger then terrorists in general...

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:03:29 -0800

hmmm.... now actualy reading the article, it says he was pulled over at 1am. but why would someone 'contend' that they were arested at a diffrent time then they actualy were?

By: cpfeifer

cpfeifer — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:51:31 -0800

it says he was pulled over at 1am. but why would someone 'contend' that they were arested at a diffrent time then they actualy were? Because if he was arrested @ 1a he was drunk and driving home when he was supposed to be on duty, but if he was arrested @ 2:30a, then he was just drunk and driving home after his shift ended.