Tuesday
22 Jul 2008
CNN on TSA’s Witch Hunt
By Annie Jacobsen in category Federal Air Marshals
Here's an interesting still frame from CNN's news story of last week: TSA Launches Witch Hunt Against Federal Air Marshal Whistleblowers.
This is the air marshal, in shadow, who authored an email encouraging fellow air marshals to talk to CNN about widespread agency corruption.
Embarrassed, the TSA is now spending an unspecified amount of taxpayer dollars to locate this man. CNN found him in "five minutes."
TSA's Chris White wouldn't tell CNN how much money the agency has already spent trying to locate this person, or for how long they will continue to spend resources on this search, but one can imagine how many TSA analysts have been tasked with measuring this guy's head and ear size against that of the agency rank and file.
If you missed the original Anderson Cooper 360 report last week, The Aviation Intelligencer has it up here.