Judicial Watch:
A scandal-plagued “VIP” program that provided members of Congress with Federal Air Marshals (FAM) often yanked from high-risk fights has been canceled after Judicial Watch exposed it earlier this month. As a result, hundreds of FAM are sitting idly at airports around the U.S. because the “VIP missions have stopped,” according to a federal law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the situation. A veteran air marshal who asked not to be identified said “the Washington Field Office in Washington D.C. was almost exclusively dedicated to VIP services for Congress.” Another longtime FAM told Judicial Watch he was deployed on several VIP missions with low-profile members of Congress. He said so many FAM were on standby for the VIP congressional program that now he and many of his colleagues are “sitting around the airport waiting for a mission.”
Sonya Hightower-LaBosco, a retired FAM who serves as executive director of the Air Marshal National Council, confirmed to Judicial Watch this week that dozens of air marshals that evidently would have been delegated to members of Congress as part of the VIP initiative are waiting for assignments at airports nationwide. “Right now, there are almost 60 in D.C., 40 in Charlotte and another 40 in Orlando,” Hightower-LaBosco said. From January through April the covert VIP service dedicated more than 900 FAM on demand to members of Congress, Hightower-LaBosco said, citing agency data. The politicians often already traveled with plenty of security on flights that did not meet the threat criteria, usually determined by the FBI, for air marshals. In many instances FAM were plucked from high-risk flights to accompany an elected official, leaving the high-risk plane with no coverage. more here
It won’t be quite so easy a fix to remove the congressional bathrooms that she regularly fouls with noxious odors.
POS like her most certainly must be placed into office by fraud, most people are smart enough to never vote for her.
Jellybean: Have you ever been to her district?
Meanwhile you can bet this POS will be confirmed; https://www.mrctv.org/videos/im-amazed-sen-cotton-says-after-hearing-atf-nominee-answer-question-what-assault-rifle
That woman has a face like a stonefish.
Major props for the art work, so good.
I know that complaining about at a bullshit waste of money federal program is like screaming at the wind or decrying stupid people but surely federal tax dollars can be spent someplace else more productive.
There is already 40,000 TSA workers paid to grope us and make us late for our connections, air marshals seems like overkill to me. Ax this program and about 57 others, that would be a good start.
@Tony R
Yeah, lol, I was a second grader when the family lived in Compton….We must have been the last white family to reside there.
Congress has two primary interests now:
1. Fucking the US public.
2. Taxing the shit out of the US public in order to provide protection to Congress from the US public that Congress won’t stop fucking over.
“…now he and many of his colleagues are “sitting around the airport waiting for a mission.”
And no more CNN to watch. Life is so tough now. Maybe you can get redeployed as in-flight mask enforcers.
Why didn’the GOP expose this?
They’re in on the scheme, that’s why.
MTG for Speaker!!
More tax dollars going down the chit hole.
rich taylor: “Major props for the art work, so good.”
Agreed — Excellent 100% !!!
The solution is right in front of them. Get rid of Maxine Waters.
…every flight with a Congressember on it is a flight with a known criminal…
…sure would be thoughtful if they’d tell we pissants which were the “bad” flights like they do our betters…
…so when do they tell the REST of us which planes to avoid…
I had a flight from Newark NJ to DC. I was a field engineer going from one job to another. Depending on the client I would get to fly business class or coach. This was a high profile client where I flew Business class.
Enter a congressman and their entourage. Of the 16 Business class seats 14 of us got bumped off the flight. While negotiating reprobation I got on the next flight out with another airline in a first class seat. I ended up with 5 upgrade vouchers, a $500 voucher, and 2 round trip tickets anywhere in the US. I still got there a day early. Anything to get out of Newark.
Re: the artwork. TY kindly. 🙂
jellybean- I think you meant, “Compton, chikichiki Compton” lol.
Yeah, it used to be white. Then black, now mostly illegal and less black. Blacks moved further north.
I get the need for Air Marshals, but for “VIP”?
Bitches, please.