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August 31, 2004
Air Marshal Law (Or Lack Thereof)
Ho-hum. Another day, another example of government incompetence (in this case, in the "War on Terror"). CNN reports:
The government hired air marshals who had been involved in cases of misconduct and doesn't hold them to a high enough disciplinary standard, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general says.
"Many federal air marshals were granted access to classified information after displaying questionable judgment, irresponsibility and emotionally unstable behavior," Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin said in a report released Monday.
Read the whole thing. The numbers are quite staggering (as were some of the air marshals, who tested "positive for alcohol or illegal drugs while on the job").
And get a load of this whopper:
Federal airport screeners would have been fired or suspended without pay for similar offenses, the report said. "Since air marshals are weapon-carrying law enforcement officers, they can and should be held to a standard of conduct at least as high as that of screeners."
These, of course, are the same screeners who were hired without background checks and some of whom were later found to be stealing from passengers' luggage and allowed to remain on the job. Looks like the air marshals are being held to exactly the same standard of conduct as the screeners.
Posted by Mike Tennant at August 31, 2004 10:48 AM