Michael Bills thought he had a pretty good gig with the
federal Transportation Security Administration. His job as a screener
at Love Field was government work--good bennies, nice retirement
package. An ex-Marine and former quality inspector for a company in
Garland before he was laid off, Bills says he even turned down other
potential employers to stick with the TSA, where he worked for about 12
months.
Then the TSA fired him last October; said he failed
to pass his background security check. Even worse, the TSA called him a
sex offender--and worse than that, a child molester.
Except
he isn't. The TSA--remember, these are the people who are supposed to
weed out the terrorists from the regular airline passengers--got the
wrong man.
"What hurt me the most is they accused me of being a sex offender," Bills says. "To me, that's the worst thing you can do."
