[Rick.Donaldson]

What I find HILARIOUS is that the TSA was giving numbers a couple of years back giving us the impression that 98% (or some number, I forget exactly) was COVERED by Marshals.

I think if they are telling people something like that and they aren’t actually covering the flights - but are getting funding (they are) then they are at fault.

Yes, I agree that CNN ought not be telling everyone in the world, but at the same time... TSA should be putting their money where their mouth is and protecting the flights.

Barring that, every FReeper that flies ought to be allowed to carry their side arm.

[tobyhill]

CNN is not the Operation's Police so the moron shouldn't have wrote anything to the MSM in the first place.
There was things in the military that I felt could either go better or were just plain wrong, and no matter what the situation, one was expected to utilize the Chain of Command and the last I checked the MSM was not on that Chain.

[untrained skeptic]

Yes, I agree that CNN ought not be telling everyone in the world, but at the same time... TSA should be putting their money where their mouth is and protecting the flights.

Do you have any idea how many flights there are in the average day? There is no way there are anywhere close to enough Air Marshals to have them present on more than a small portion of the flights.

I had never heard anyone at the TSA claim that there were Air Marshals on a large percentage of the flights. I've heard the opposite many times. I don't know where you might have heard that they had agents on most flights, but they simply don't have the manpower to do that.