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www.suntimes.com Back to regular viewhttp://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-air10.html Passenger finds out who cops are, the hard way March 10, 2004BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter Flying to Washington on Monday, the Glencoe man allegedly sized up each first-class passenger as a potential federal air marshal. Allegedly he pointed at one and declared him "too fat'' to be a marshal. Before it was over, Jeffrey Samuel Silverman caused enough trouble that he was arrested and charged with interfering with a flight attendant through assault or intimidation on United Airlines Flight 620 from O'Hare to Ronald Reagan International Airport. On Tuesday, Silverman had a removal hearing...

Josh Marshall Has Serious Chutzpah Josh Marshall, author of the Talking Points Memo, has just gone a step too far, even for him. He is accusing Matt Drudge of coordinating his website postings on the DrudgeReport with the RNC...because Drudge's posts were similar to a speech on the same day given by the RNC's Chairman, Ed Gillespie. Gasp! Seriously, that's pretty sleazy, even for "Pope Josh I". He knows just as well as everyone else that during the news cycle, political actors and bloggers jump on the issues that are hot. He also knows that Drudge gets millions of readers...

WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Transportation Security Administration spent $6.9 million to outfit the federal air marshal corps with voice-capable wireless handheld computers for in-flight use and then subsequently banned any voice usage because of potential interference with cockpit functions, according to interviews with several air marshals. THE HANDHELD DEVICES, made by Palm Inc. and commonly known as “personal digital assistants” (PDAs), have become a running joke, in part because they are unwieldy to use, according to interviews more than a dozen air marshals and administrators within the air marshal program due to the unwieldy nature of their use. Although...