mr. rhoades, i have a question for you. mr. rhoades: yes, sir. mr. clay: kind of concerned about this article i'm reading about a mohamed farah from minneapolis. are you familiar with him? mr. rhoades: i am. mr. clay: and he's part of a iman and part of an influential somalian group. he said there is an ongoing pattern of racial profiling and harassment by t.s.a. agents at the twin cities airport. he said recently, he was asked by an agent who says, quote, "hey, were you going to make a run for it if i hadn't given your ticket back?" and the only response he's gotten from t.s.a. and the congressman from that area, mr. ellison, is that they take these complaints seriously. well, i think it's a little bit more than that. he's also been given a t.s.a. control number from the agency's redress program and he said it doesn't help, either. so what can we do for mr. farah that would change the conditions that he experiences every time he goes through your airport? mr. rhoades: thank you for that question, sir. you may not realize, but there is a "new york ti

>> mr. rhoades most certainly did. the key here is that by lying about whether he was a moderate, he provided cover for the fact that the administration left iran with 5,000 p 1 centrifuges and the administration never had hope once this agreement expired that the resulting iran with the nuclear program would be different and i should note that that's the number of cent fujs that pakistan built not a bomb, but around arsenal. >> yes, i think he deceived the american people. >> mr. hannah? >> if the article is accurate, yes, i think that he engaged in certain deceptions about what the administration was really up to and what we were facing in iran. >> the iran agreement lifts restrictions after five years and removes the ban on developing ballistic missiles capable of reaching the united states. every time there is a failed missile test, the fact of the matter is you learn a lot from a failed missile test and iran made clear in public statement that is it intends to continue with the ballistic missiles until such a time

>> yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> yes. >> mr. rhoades? >> if i can say something with that. >> go ahead. >> federal security directors are working with their staff and working with the airports and airlines. we have faced tougher challenges in our history standing up as you well know one of the founders of our agency, i'm confident we'll be able to find workable solutions as long as we're keeping partnership with stake holders. >> you have a lot of good workers out there who should be rewarded. we need a better way of rewarding and retain gs the good tso workers. get rid of some of the bureaucrats at the top who are causing most of the problems. and they've -- i guess over the years they felt threatened, particularly by me because i keep saying my goodness, we have a huge bureaucracy, many of them a few miles from here. and they are very domestic nearing over the domestic emocr. i dealt with them in privatizing one of my airports, i've always left that option open. one of my local airports requested to opt out and then they came down and

mr. cummings. representative cummings: today of threehe testimony employees from the transportation security administration who allege a series of abuses and improper practices within that agency. whistleblowers are essential to identifying ways based on the work conducted by this committee today protect employees who bring wrongdoing to light. i know chairman and i share a strong commitment to ensuring that federal employees who come before us are protected from retaliation and reprisal. equally important, we as members of the committee also have an obligation to run these allegations to the ground and determine if we can substantiate them. of course just as we want to protect whistle blowers from retaliation, i'm sure we all agree that we also want to protect federal employees from claim s that are not substantiated. all three of these men who have stepped forward today for their willingness to testify and for the information that they provided in the transcribed interviews with the com