Obama is in charge of the executive, so this decision either passed on his desk, leaving with a stamp of approval, or he at the very least has the power to block it.
Other candidates were Mitt Romney, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode and Rocky Anderson.
If I had to pick one least likely to approve this, I'd put my money on Gary Johnson, but I realize it's a fool's bet. Though I think I'd also put my money on Obama if the question was "who's most likely to approve this decision ?".
If you don't want war just choose one of those options.
It's the same with sex based laws. [I.e. having a broad def for a registered sex offender] They're unwilling to repeal ineffective ones in the hopes of not appearing ineffective towards the subject.
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Anyways going off the rant. The problem is that the only way that we have the opportunity to "sway" the organization's actions is via a set of proxies. We have to influence our congress person, along with others, then we have to convince them that it's worth doing something and following through. If that's not enough we'll have to compete with the TSA unions/employees who claim that what they're doing is important/etc, the lobbyers who have fancy material for the congress person claiming "effectiveness", etc.
It pretty much looks hopeless.