Corruption At The TSA?

Federal officers charged with keeping terrorists off planes are now searching their own ranks for staff who told CNN that few flights were protected by air marshals.

The Transportation Security Administration rejected as a "myth" CNN's report that less than 1 percent of the nation's daily flights carry armed federal air marshals. Now the agency is conducting an investigation into who talked to CNN and who encouraged other agents to do the same.

A spokesman for the TSA confirmed the investigation.

Spokesman Christopher White said a TSA investigator is looking into the "possible unauthorized release of sensitive and classified information to the news media by covered parties."

"As part of this ongoing investigation, several individuals, both current and former employees, have been contacted as is typical in any investigation," he said in an e-mail to CNN.

Now, I want to be perfectly clear here.  The reason why there are air marshal's on planes, is due to 9/11 and threats against this nation.  That, in of itself, is enough of a reason for people to get their shit together.  If there is less than 1% of flights having air marshals, then the public has the right to know about it AND the TSA has the right to get it's ass handed to it because of it.

It's that fucking important.

Shortly after CNN aired its first report, director Dana Brown announced plans to retire. He has since decided to stay with the air marshals in a newly created position of Integrity Officer.

His successor is Robert Bray, current deputy director, who, like Brown and Neiderer, is a former Secret Service employee.

Sounds like a cover your ass kind of move doesn't it?

What kind of uproar would happen if someone managed to take over another aircraft because there weren't any air marshals on that particular flight?  You can bet that the public would want blood vengeance for it.

Former air marshal Denning said he thinks the TSA should spend its time tracking down terrorists instead of former employees' e-mails.

"If they want to tap into someone's personal e-mail because they were going to destroy the Pentagon or kill the president, I could see reasons for contacting someone," Denning said. "But they're contacting me on my personal e-mail that I apparently forwarded to someone else's personal e-mail account. It's outlandish."

And Mr. Denning is exactly right.  Spend the time and money tracking down our enemies, not dealing with someone who's publicly showing you with your cocks in your hand, doing nothing to protect Americans.

 

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com