Janice Hough tells the story about a super-elite flier losing his seat to a Federal Air Marshal. She wonders why the air marshal would want to be isolated upstairs on a 747.
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air marshals
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is having some problems with its air marshal program. It seems that office politics has resulted in allegations of illegal discrimination, retaliation and mismanagement within the agency and airlines are pushing back against having to always provide first-class seats to marshals.
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Nine Muslim passengers were ordered off an AirTran flight, cleared of wrongdoing by the FBI, yet were refused a rebooking. What happened?
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Fewer than one percent of the 28,000 commercial flights in the air each day in the United States are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, according to a CNN investigation.
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