Director of nation's airport security reassigned The move came the same day as the release of an embarrassing report.

The chief of the Transportation Security Administration was reassigned Monday, the same day that a report was released chronicling massive failures in airport security.

Melvin Carraway, the TSA’s acting administrator was reassigned, according to a statement issued by Jeh Johnson, secretary of Homeland Security. Mark Hatfield, who had been the agency’s acting deputy director, will take the reins.


Carraway, who joined the agency in 2004, had been the acting administrator only since January.

Johnson’s moves came the same day that an embarrassing report about the agency’s handling of security at the nation’s airports was released.

TSA officials failed to stop undercover agents carrying fake explosives or banned weapons through airport security during 67 out of 70 trials, the new report alleges.

According to ABC News, a new TSA report found that Homeland Security “Red Team” personnel posing as passengers were able to easily smuggle dangerous materials through checkpoints.

Upon hearing the results of the tests, Johnson reportedly went to TSA headquarters in Northern Virginia for an in-person briefing. Officials told ABC that they have already implemented changes based on the results of the Red Team tests.

During one test, an undercover Homeland Security official was reportedly apprehended after he set off a magnetometer, but the TSA agents on the scene did not uncover a mock explosive taped to his back, even during a pat-down.

Homeland Security officials would not tell ABC News exactly when the tests took place, though they did say in a statement that, after hearing of the results, “Secretary Johnson immediately directed TSA to implement a series of actions several of which are now in place, to address the issues raised in the report.”

In 2013, then-TSA Administrator John Pistole told Congress that, because the Red Team is so familiar with the agency’s policies, they are able to get past security in ways “not even the best terrorists would be able to do.”

ABC also reported that the investigation found that in the past six years TSA has spent $540 million on baggage screening equipment and a further $11 million on training procedures without making any substantial upgrades.