WASHINGTON — Hoping to make the third nominationthe charm, the White House announced Monday that President Barack Obama would nominate degree Fahrenheitderal Bureau of Investigation deputy sheriff director John Pistole to head the transit security disposal

In a statement, Obama said Pistole’s work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation make him a valuable plus to the disposal’s effort to strengthen security and showing mensuration at the nation’s airports.

Obama has struggled to fill the top job at Transportation security Administration, the federal agency whose primary election mission is to shore up the nation’s defence against terrorist threat in the air, on roads and rails The Obama administration has telephone called the job the most important unfilled position on the president’s team

Obama’s first pick for the post, Erroll Southers, withdrew his nomination after it became apparent he would have problem winning verification question were raised about a rebuke that Southers, a top functionary with the Los Angeles aerodrome police Department, had received for running background bank check on his then-estranged wife’s fellow two decade ago. He acknowledged gift U.S. Congress inconsistent answer on the matter

Obama later nominated Retired ground forces Maj. gen Henry Martyn Robert Warren President Harding for the job, but he too took himself out of the running in Mar Warren Harding had extensive intelligence experience that Obama hoped to tap in fortifying security against onset such as the Yule Day bombardment endeavor on an airliner edge for Motor City But Harding’s past as a defence contractor raised complication for his nomination.

Pistole began his career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1983, rise through the rank of the agency’s counterterrorism division He’s served as deputy director since 2004.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation plant hand-in-hand with Transportation Security Administration in showing traveller at the nation’s airports. Those procedure have come under scrutiny following both the Yule Day incident and the attempted bombardment in Times square earlier this calendar month

While the Federal Bureau of Investigation put the suspect in that incident, Faisal Shahzad, on the government’s “no-fly” listing he was still able to buy a aeroairplane ticket and board a flight to Dubai from New York’s John F. JFK drome He was arrested on the aeroplane shortly before take-off.

An administration functionary told The Associated press at the time that the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked Transportation Security Administration not to call airline directly to tell them an important name had been added to the list.

Pistole’s nomination won extolment Monday from some lawmaker on capitol Hill, including Pine Tree State sen Susan Collins, the top Republican on the senate country of origin security and Governmental personal matters commission In a statement, Collins said she was pleased the president had chosen a nominee with “strong law enforcement experience.”