Federal Officials Deny Report That Obama Seeks to End Pilot Gun Program

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[flintsilver7]

Federal officials are denying a report that the Obama administration is seeking to end a program that allows trained airline pilots to carry guns.

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Sterling Payne, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, denied the report and said the program that oversees a reported 12,000 federal flight deck officers (FFDO) is actually expanding.

"It's inaccurate, this program continues to grow," Payne told FOXNews.com of the editorial. "TSA continues to recruit and put new FFDOs on planes, and we continue to train them and do recurring training."

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[rcrngroup]

Let’s see. Some of the possibilities are:
1) It was a trial balloon that’s been shot down.
2) It’s internet hype.
3) Obama’s goofed (again).
4) More bad communication within the administration.
5) It’s time to shift the blame (again).
6) No one has any idea where it came from, just like the Dodd ammendment.
7) .....

Filled in......
7) Let me explain what really happened (Oboooombi -- spoken in clear, confident tone)

Lying POS Oboooombi!!!
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[Redbob]

"Captain Teleprompter and the Soldiers of Surrender"

THIS one deserves a prize!!!

[Frank L]

>Lol. Okay, we need a pic to caption this with.

The cheese eating surrender monkey would be a good start. Not aiming the monkey at Obama, but as a soldier.

[upchuck]

Somebody is lying. I’m not sure who.

Wash Times: http://tinyurl.com/c2hqgy
Fox News: http://tinyurl.com/cf5shd

The Wash Times editorial does not quote anyone. The Fox story does.

Smells fishy.

[shoutingandpointing]

Is anyone keeping track of the trial balloons that have been floated and quickly reeled back in recently? Just look at the FR threads of this AM.

Are they trying to throw so much into the air all at once that there is no way all of it can be caught before it hits the ground, or are they truly that incompetent and flailing completely out of control? Maybe both? I am stumped.

On the other hand, every time something draconian/ridiculous hits the wires, it provides the kid with an opportunity to present himself as the voice of reason and pronounce the issue a nonstarter.

O.K. Make that maybe all three? Even more stumped.

[ScottinVA]

“They will say they are not killing it but they are defunding it.”

And yet another typical example of 0bama’s double-speak.