An internal report found the Transportation Security Administration spent almost $500,000 on "unnecessarily expensive" awards, including a lifetime achievement honor for one employee of the two-year-old agency

Reason, Feb, 2005 by Charles Oliver

An internal report found the Transportation Security Administration spent almost $500,000 on "unnecessarily expensive" awards, including a lifetime achievement honor for one employee of the two-year-old agency. The report also found that the TSA gives senior executives bonuses averaging $16,000, higher than the average bonus at any other government agency, and gives bonuses to a far higher percentage of its executives.