During a national emergency, the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security was authorized to coordinate domestic aviation, rail, surface, and maritime transportation, and to oversee transportation-related responsibilities of federal departments and agencies other than the Department of Defense and military departments.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by direct statutory text from multiple independent legal sources including U.S. House Law Revision Counsel, Justia archived U.S. Code versions, and GovInfo official PDFs, all matching the claim's language precisely for the era when the position was titled 'Under Secretary of Transportation for Security'. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- 49 USC 114(s): Nondisclosure of security activities - ProPublica (seed:conspiracy_and_investigation)
- https://law.justia.com/codes/us/2001/title49/subtitlei/chap1/sec114 (corroboration)
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-2007-title49-section114&num=0&edition=2007 (corroboration)
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2015-title49/pdf/USCODE-2015-title49-subtitleI-chap1-sec114.pdf (corroboration)