A whistleblower has called on President Donald Trump and Congress to separate the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in order to better protect air travelers from terrorist attacks.
The call was made by President of the Air Marshal Association John Casaretti, according to Breitbart.
“Everything the air marshals did around 2007 onwards was all through the lens of the TSA bureaucracy,” Casaretti said.
“TSA only cares about screeners.
“They don’t have any deep experience with law enforcement.
“Unfortunately, the air marshals were listening to them.
“All of the policies were made by them, and bad policy after bad policy ensued.
“When it came to intelligence, when it came to hiring, standards were lowered.”
He continued, “They made the Air Marshal Service a career path for TSA screeners, so incredibly, where we started out as these high-speed anti-terrorism agents … to be a career path for TSA airport screeners.
“It actually blows my mind to this day, and it really needs to be changed.”
Casaretti spoke to Matthew Boyle about his recent Breitbart News op-ed titled “It’s Time to Reset the Federal Air Marshal Service.”
The article addressed his part in the shutdown of the Quiet Skies program in June.
His whistleblowing about the program was a key reason for its shutdown, going all the way back to 2018.
The program had undercover air marshals “following ordinary U.S. citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior.”
One of the targets of surveillance was then-presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who is now the DNI director handling national intelligence.
According to DHS, Quiet Skies “since its existence has failed to stop a single terrorist attack while costing US taxpayers $200 million a year.”
“The program, under the guise of ‘national security,’ was used to target political opponents and benefit political allies,” DHS stated in a press release.
“The American public would be better served if these [air marshals] were instead assigned to airport screening and check-in areas so that active shooter events can be swiftly ended, and violations of federal crimes can be properly and consistently addressed,” Casaretti argued.
He went on to say that the risk of terrorism “is greater right now than it ever has been before, certainly greater than pre-9/11.
“Every intel analyst with eyes on this is saying, ‘Hey, we’re in trouble. Something’s going to happen.’
“And I’m trying to sound the alarm here because we’ve been saying this, as far as something’s going to happen, and why the air marshals need to improve for years.”
Legislation to separate FAMS and TSA is in the beginning stages in both the House and Senate, with language having been drawn up, but it is still in legislative review before it can be introduced to the floor.
That means it’s probably going to be a while before anything can happen.
Meanwhile, the risk of an incident is great, and everyone knows it.
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