Air Marshal Says He Faced Retaliation for Bringing Up Security Issues

Air Marshal Says He Faced Retaliation for Bringing Up Security Issues
May 18, 2006 7:46 PM

Brian Ross Reports:

The head of a group of Federal Air Marshals says the service is badly broken.

"Right now we cannot protect the public," says Frank Terreri, an active duty air marshal who represents a group of 1,500 air marshals. "And not because we're not proficient, not that we're not capable, it's because federal air marshal management, along with the Department of Homeland Security, won't let us do our jobs."

Terreri says air marshals are not able to work undercover because check-in and boarding procedures at airports make it impossible for air marshals to maintain their anonymity:

"We're supposed to be undercover. But basically when everybody knows who you are, you're just the guys on the plane with the gun. Either they're gonna avoid you or overcome you, you're at a severe disadvantage."

more at:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/air_marshal_say.html

Section 3.3 of the report. Today there are 'thousands' according to a SF Chronicle article 'Air Marshal Integrity Called Into Question' page A3, August 31, 2004.

BTW, NSA's operation Firstfruits now makes this whistleblower subject to retaliation as a consequence of contact with ABC's Ross. BushCo cannot explain Indira Singh's whistleblowing re Ptech (now GoAgile) since that firm still has ongoing work inside the WhiteHouse, DoD, and apparently the FAA:

""Ptech is used primarily to develop enterprise blueprints at the highest level of US government and corporate infrastructure. These blueprints hold every important functional, operational, and technical detail of the enterprise. A secondary use of this powerful tool is to build other smart tools in a short period of time. Ptech’s clients in 2001 included the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, Customs, Air Force, the White House, the FAA, IBM, Sysco, Aetna, and Motorola, to name just a few. ""

Dollars of terror
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