Air Marshals are leaving the agency in droves. Less that 1% of flights are now covered by armed marshals, a CNN investigation reveals: "Air Marshals Missing From Almost All Flights."

Don't miss the broadcast story tonight at 10:00 p.m. EST. 

"Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found. 

…CNN was told that staffing in Dallas, Texas, for instance, is down 44 percent from its high, while Seattle, Washington, has 40 percent fewer agents. Las Vegas, Nevada, which had as many as 245 air marshals, this past February had only 47."

Ready for the big surprise? TSA, which is in charge of the Air Marshal Service, denies the allegations. And they use their favorite new word with CNN (same as they did with recent stories broken by ABC and Pajamas Media). They call CNN's story a "myth."

The TSA refuses to release either the total number of marshals regularly assigned to flights or a percentage of daily flights that are covered, but called the numbers given to CNN "a myth." 

So, why the exodus? Read Why Have 67,000 employees left the TSA?  

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