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Yup
Mars!
Psst. Guess who’s on Fox tamping this down? FAM MacLean
Remember the whistleblower that let fly there would be no marshalls on international flights for two months and ended up getting fired for the security breach in ‘06?
Yep.
Snip:
The proposal for the executive order was drafted by current and former Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) whistleblowers, including Robert MacLean, who was fired after blowing the whistle on plans to eliminate protection on long-leg or coast-to-coast flights to save money, contrary to a congressional mandate that such flights have air marshals.
The information made public by Mr. MacLean was not classified at the time, but was retroactively classified as “sensitive security information” after Mr. MacLean was fired for the leak.
“This executive order will send a message to federal government managers or those employees tasked with combating terrorism and protecting public safety that the new administration will not condone whistleblower retaliation when gross mismanagement and corruption is exposed, or when public safety is being endangered,” the order said.
It asks that a panel be convened to review whistleblower retaliation to determine whether employees should be reinstated.
“The Government Accountability Project believes in the justice of their petition, and we have decided to use all of our resources as advocates to champion this,” Mr. Devine said.
Mr. MacLean says he does not regret blowing the whistle; he just wants his job back.
“I want to serve as if I had never blown the whistle,” Mr. MacLean said. “I want President Obama to bring back all national-security whistleblowers to serve in federal government again.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/02/whistleblowers-want-protection/print/
Gee, they were still talking about re-instating these guys Sept. of last year, he got hired back that quick? Strange.
Interesting. I thought even with whistleblower protections it wasn’t retroactive, anyone know?
Back to Fox: Now he’s asked why the plane came down at a very low altitude (re: pressurizing/altitude), while they were escorted for the last 40 minutes into Denver (even though by now it was ‘a misunderstanding’), answer: procedure.
Check the times and past twits.