Former Red Team Leader and prominent, federal whistleblower Bogdan Dzakovic is testifying today in Washington, D.C. on a panel regarding aviation matters. The Government Accountability Project, GAP, is hosting the panel as part of its Whistleblower Week.

GAP handles Dzakovic's case which alleges that TSA is failing in its duties to safeguard the flying public.

GAP submitted papers this morning, on Dzakovic's behalf, to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) — an office fully embroiled in its own, obstruction of justice and corruption charges trouble. (Last week, FBI agents raided the home and office of OSC chief Scott Bloch in an attempt to prevent Bloch from destroying further evidence from his computer.) In 2003, the Office of Special Counsel praised Dzakovic for his work, noting that the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation had independently verified his allegations, much of which centered on the gross mismanagement of the the undercover Red Team program.

Dzakovic, who worked for FAA before 9/11 and has worked for the TSA since, alleges in today's filing that TSA has not fixed any of the glaring, bureaucratic problems that failed to prevent the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Dzakovic outlined these failures in a lengthy, government report. 

Dzakovic's lawyer, Tom Devine, told New Jersey's The Star-Ledger:

"Not only was [Bogdan Dzakovic's] report ignored, but Bogdan became persona non grata for any work related to airline security," Devine said.

In papers submitted to the Government Accountability Project, Dzakovic wrote that "the gist of my report…is that all these technological 'layers' of security that FAA espoused can be fairly easily circumvented by would-be attackers; and that TSA is basically doing the exact same thing as the FAA before it.

"But rather than learn from the past, hold people accountable and fix the bureaucratic problems which contributed to the ease with which the terrorist(s) succeeded on 9/11, TSA plunged the roller coaster of security to new depths," he wrote.

Ron Marisco's article on the subject can be read here.  

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