GOP Congressman Wants To Disband Air Marshals — Program Costs Taxpayers $200 Million Per Arrest -- Mark Hemingway, Washington ExaminerVia Boing Boing, after last night’s misunderstanding here’s some food for thought from about the Air Marshal program. It’s from a floor speech Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., (R-Tenn.) gave last year. Duncan has a point about more Air Marshals being arrested for crimes they themselves have committed than arrests they have made in the line of duty:
Read more ....And listen to this paragraph from a front-page story in the USA Today last November: “Since 9/11, more than three dozen Federal air marshals have been charged with crimes, and hundreds more have been accused of misconduct. Cases range from drunken driving and domestic violence to aiding a human-trafficking ring and trying to smuggle explosives from Afghanistan.”
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