TSA Fraud Explained

Airport Insecurity Persists only passenger harassment has escalated. Back in 2006 airport security workers at LAX were not screened for criminal backgrounds and many were found to be illegal immigrants. Here is the U S Attorney Debra Yang describing why she did not prosecute them even though they submitted false information on their job applications? Also LASD Sgt. Richard Valdemar describes how gang members are working the airline baggage handling on airplanes without being screened for weapons. More of the "News behind the news" here http://www.fulldisclosure.net

Something In The Air

Dan Hanley

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Something To Think About

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone was able to relax and
enjoy time with those who mean the most in their lives. I was so fortunate to be able to travel to Florida with
my family over the holiday period. I would like to say that traveling through both the Portland Jetport and the Orlando Airport
was nothing less than professional and easy. The Orlando Airport had large crowds, but overall the employees
that are trying to make a living doing an underappreciated job in these turbulent times, were very friendly and
accommodating. Things went very smoothly from my point of view as a Navy Veteran who has traveled quite
a bit over the last 30 years. I think that sometimes we get caught up in our everyday life and little things become bigger
things and get blown out of proportion. That is not to say that security is not important, on the contrary it is very important,
and we as Americans need to remember that and not take it for granted. With that said, security is sometimes an inconvience
but is that so much to pay for security? Maybe if we weren't so wrapped up in ourselves an how important we
think we and our time is we wouldn't be so impatient. I think it is time for us all to take a step back and take stock
of what is going on in the world and think about how we can help those around us and each other rather than
continually find fault with everyone and every little thing that doesn't go our personal way.

My obeservations,

Tom Whitney
United States Navy, Retired
Lisbon Falls, Maine

Poll Shows Most Americans New Airline Screening Procedures

Majority of Americans Now Oppose Body Scanners and TSA Pat Downs

A new poll by Zogby International finds that 61% of Americans polled between Nov. 19 and Nov. 22 oppose the use of full body scans and TSA pat downs.  Of those polled, 52% believe the enhanced security measures will not prevent terrorist activity, almost half (48%) say it is a violation of privacy rights, 33% say they should not have to go through enhanced security methods to get on an airplane, and 32% believe the full body scans and TSA pat downs to be sexual harassment.

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We're Only Guilty Of Bringing You The Facts TSA Shuts Down Controversial Imaging Device

TSA turns off naked body scanners to avoid opt-out day protests

• (NaturalNews) Anticipating a nationwide grassroots surge of protests against naked body scanners and aggressive pat-downs, the TSA simply turned off its naked body scanners on Wednesday and let air travelers walk right through security checkpoints without being X-rayed or molested.
• All across the country, air travelers are reporting that the TSA simply deactivated the naked body scanners and let people go right through without a scan. "Backscatter scanners are off. No scan. No patdown." reported a traveler from the Seattle airport. "Backscatter machines aren't being used at LAX," reported another traveler. "They're all roped off."
• Much the same story is being reported all across the country.

• The TSA is desperate to avoid protests

• Shutting down the "National Opt-Out Day" by turning off the machines is the only logical move for the TSA, of course: The agency needed a way to defuse the growing grassroots resistance to its criminal violations of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights. So instead of facing what was sure to be widespread protest, the agency simply decided to turn off the machines for a day.
• This action tells us all sorts of fascinating things about the TSA and its fabricated security excuses. Perhaps most importantly, it proves that the naked body scanners are not needed for air travel security in the first place. When it wants to, the TSA can just turn the machines off and resort to baggage X-rays and metal detectors. That's worked for years, and it apparently worked today, too.
• And yet, up until today, the TSA has insisted that the naked body scanners are absolutely essential to detecting hidden bombs, and that "travelers won't be safe" unless they use the naked body scanners. So all of a sudden today it's okay for the TSA to put air travelers at risk of being blown up?
• The TSA can't have it both ways. Either the naked body scanners are vital for air security and they need to be running 24/7 to keep everybody safe, or they're just another security con game being played out for the financial benefit of Chertoff and others who profit from the sale of such machines.
• How can the TSA -- with a straight face -- say that naked body scanners are vital for air security but not on the busiest air travel day of the year?
• As you can see, there are some serious holes in the TSA's mythology, and interestingly, this National Opt-Out Day indirectly exposed them by getting the TSA to turn off the naked body scanners. This is effectively an admission that they aren't important to air security.

• Trying to avoid any challenge to its power

• This action by the TSA also shows that the TSA is desperately trying to avoid being publicly embarrassed by the national-opt-out day protests. Lots of local and national news film crews were out at the airports today, hoping to catch something interesting on camera. But by turning off the naked body scanners, the TSA was able to stage a "calm looking" day at the airport.

• As soon as the TV cameras leave, however, they can turn those machines right back on and start molesting people once again. This is classic behavior of police state tyrants: They present a calm, professional image to the media, but once the cameras leave, all of a sudden their hands are back down in your pants.

• I predict the TSA will have the machines turned right back on by Friday, and more reports of sexual molestation and inappropriate pat-downs will continue to emerge.

• Many people just skipped the airports altogether

• The other big travel news today was that lots of travelers decided to simply skip the airports altogether. NaturalNews received emails from several travelers who described major U.S. airports as "nearly empty."

• Meanwhile, traffic was terrible on the freeways. The Massachusetts Turnpike played host to a 30-mile traffic jam today (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/2...).

• A new Zogby poll indicates that 43% of the American public will seek alternatives to flying due to the TSA's aggressive pat-downs and naked body scanners (http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews....). That's going to add up to a huge financial hit for the air travel industry in the months ahead. The TSA could end up destroying much of the air travel industry altogether!

• Learn more about freedom, security, American history and the Bill of Rights

• For a full discussion of the issues that really matter here, check out my new commentary audio / video about the Don't Touch My Junk song.

• The first 13 minutes or so are about the song itself. After that, it's mostly a discussion about freedom and the Bill of Rights. You can watch that video commentary for free at:
• http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=F69DE...

• Thank you to all who participated in the National Opt Out Day. In getting the TSA to turn off its naked body scanners, we exposed the TSA's "big lie" about air travel safety

• .
• Have a Happy Thanksgiving and travel safely, no matter what method of transportation you choose.

TSA And Your Civil Liberties

In defense of our children - an important message from Brasscheck TV‏

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=== It's sick - plain and simple ===
 
There's been little discussion about the 
euphemstically-named full-body "pat downs" taking 
place in US airports as they effect CHILDREN.
 
We've put up numerous videos now of very young children
being stripped searched in public, touched against their
will, and, in any other place and under any other 
circumstances, molested by TSA screeners.
 
Parents are counseled to tell their children that
these "screenings" are a game.  
 
The US news media's comment on this?
 
Deafening silence. 
 
Instead they ask us if we aren't being "too sensitive"
and tell us there needs to be a "balance between
security and privacy." 
 
Children are being taught that anyone in uniform
has free access to their bodies...that they can't
say "no"...and that their parents are unable to protect
them. 
 
In turn, parents are being taught that they
cannot protect their children.
 
The only word that comes to my mind to describe
this enterprise is "criminal."
 
Did not the TSA, Homeland Security, and the White
House (and the jackals in Congress that fund this
insanity) anticipate this as an outcome?
 
There are two possibilities here: either this is
official idiocy and arrogance of the highest order
or this outcome was anticipated and deemed acceptable.  
 
I don't know the answer...but I do know that as a
governmenty agency that works closely with the CIA
and FBI, Homeland Security and the TSA have access
to hundreds of psychologists and psychiatrists,
in their employ, under contract, and available 
at the drop of a dime. 
 
I am not an expert in child abuse so I asked my
friend and colleague Kenneth Wooden for his comment. 
 
Wooden is a former journalist and author of the
chilling and important book "The Children of Jonestown."
 
His experience covering the Jonestown story and seeing
the hundreds of children's coffins that came back from
Guyana motivated him to create a training company that
teaches children how to identify and protect themselves
from predators. 
 
I asked him what he thinks of the TSA's policy of
commanding its employees to strip search and conduct
full body "pat downs" of small children.
 
I specifically asked him his opinion of the TSA
advising that young children be told that these officially 
sanctioned intrusions of their bodies are a game. 
 
Wooden's answer follows...
 
=== The TSA has crossed the line ===
 
As a national child personal safety expert, I submit the TSA 
crosses the line when it allows the patting down of children for 
security reasons, cloaked as a game.  
 
The most recent Gallup Poll on childhood abuse revealed that in just one
year, more than a million children were sexually and physically abused.
Along the same lines, the American Medical Association has referred to the
rape and sexual exploitation of women and children as a "violent and silent
epidemic."  Men increasingly reveal how they were sexually assaulted in
their youth, by a rainbow of sexual predators, usually someone they knew.
 
Given that background - and the number of survivors that have been sexually
abused and exploited - it is beyond comprehension how the Homeland Security
Agency's  TSA can conceive of such insensitive and invasive security checks
on our children and youth.  Even worse, they want to depict pat downs of
children as a game!  As an investigative researcher/reporter who has
interviewed well over a thousand sexual offenders, I can document that one
of the favorite ploys to lure children and youth into sexual abuse is to
disguise it as a "game."
 
How can experts working at the TSA be so incredibly misinformed and
misguided to suggest that full body pat downs for children be portrayed as a
game?!To do so is completely contrary to what we in the sexual abuse
prevention field have been trying to accomplish for the past thirty years.
Such policy could essentially desensitize children to inappropriate touch
and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children.
This policy is also incredibly insensitive to the countless victims who have
already been traumatized by unwanted touching in their lives and could be
re-traumatized by such pat-downs. 
 
In my judgment as a lifelong journalist and child advocate, such unapprised
actions by the TSA borders on criminal negligence and, legally speaking,
"deliberate indifference to the future emotional well being of millions of
victims and the potential for far too many more young victims." 
 
Ken Wooden
 
Child Lures Prevention 

Is The Administration Setting Us Up For An "Event" So Obama Can Say "I Was Trying To Protect You"?

Florida Airport Marks Pioneering Effort For Air Travelers

Florida airport to opt out of TSA screening

By David Edwards

Many Americans are frustrated and outraged at new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening policies that require full body scanning or invasive pat-downs at airports.

Now one airport in Central Florida has decided not to use TSA agents at all for screening their passengers.

Larry Dale, the CEO of the Sanford Airport Authority, told WDBO radio that his board has authorized him to use a private screening firm instead of TSA employees.

"All of our due diligence shows it's the way to go," Dale said. "You're going to get better service at a better price and more accountability and better customer service."

The CEO expects to send the federal government final notification in January. The private screeners could be in place within the next 12 months.

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Your Safety & Privacy Sold For Profit, Not Security

John Tyner, a California man, became a national sensation when he recorded his encounter during an airport security pat-down. After the exchange, Tyner uploaded the video to the web and shortly after - it went viral. "We can do that out here, but if you touch my junk I am going to have you arrested," Tyner told the airport security official. The US media has had a field day, reporting the pros and cons of body scanning machines and pat-downs in the name of security. But one question they failed to ask is: who is behind the push for the body scanners?


"No Dose of Backscatter Ionizing Radiation
Has Ever Been Proven Safe."

Russia Today points out an important detail being left out of most mainstream media reports about the new body scanning devices being rolled out in airports everywhere: former Department of Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff, who has been advocating this technology on any news program that will have him is personally profiting from their implementation. As a Security Consultant and Chairman of the Chertoff Group, one of his main clients is Rapiscan, a manufacturer of these devices.

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security awarded contracts of US$160 million each to two manufacturers of these back-scattering devices, one which which was Rapiscan.

Beyond the issue of Chertoff's illegal advertising his product on news programs by pretending to be a public servant, there is some debate about the safety of these new Back-scatter X-Ray Body Scanning devices. One former intelligence agent and present-day security consultant, Wayne Simmons appeared on Andrew Napolitano's "Liberty Pen" and said that while the device is an excellent tool, "There is no dose of backscatter ionizing radiation that has ever been proven safe," and that he would prefer to see only passengers who are deemed to be suspicious going through these devices, with the bulk going through the metal detectors, with which we've all become accustomed.

Recently, passenger John Tyner was singled out to go through one of these machines but chose to "opt out," which meant he'd be subjected to the TSA's new irrationally invasive pat-down method. As he was barefoot and taken aside by the TSA worker he turned on his cellphone camera and said: "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested." Tyner then uploaded the video to his YouTube account and he became a instant hero as it went viral.

 Watch the following to have it explained more clearly. 

Ron Paul Proposes A Solution OPT OUT AMERICA

Nov. 17, 2010 - Congressman Ron Paul (TX-14) introduces the American Traveler Dignity Act in response to regulatory measures taken by the TSA to implement potentially dangerous X-Ray screening procedures or invasive "pat-downs" by TSA officials. Campaign for Liberty has released a written statement opposing this regulatory overreach by the TSA.

Follow this link for Campaign for Liberty's written statement:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blo...

Follow this link for the text of Ron Paul's bill, the American Traveler Dignity Act
http://paul.house.gov/index.php?optio...

Finally Some Politicians With Some Fortitude

New Jersey Legislators Take on the TSA

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TRENTON— Senator Michael J. Doherty (R-Hunterdon, Warren) and Senator James Beach (D-Camden) today announced they will present resolutions to the Senate and Assembly calling on the U.S. Congress to end TSA screening procedures requiring full body scans and pat downs at U.S. airports Their action comes in response to widespread concerns over privacy and radiation, as well as reports of inappropriate conduct by TSA agents during the screening process.

"The pursuit of security should not force Americans to surrender their civil liberties or basic human dignity at a TSA checkpoint," said Doherty. "Subjecting law-abiding American citizens to naked body scans and full body pat downs is intolerable, humiliating, vulnerable to abuse, and is fast becoming a disincentive to travel. Particularly concerning to us is the fact that physical searches result in children being touched in private areas of the body. Terrorists hate America because of the freedoms upon which this great nation was built. By implementing these screening measures, the TSA has already handed a victory to those who seek to destroy our freedoms."

 Read more here.

It Takes A Cartoon To Make More Sense Than Lip Service From The Media

Cartoons to the rescue

You know that you're living strange times when an animated cartoon makes more sense that the talking heads in the media.

The US news media, including NPR, is doing everything it can to "normalize" the idea of uniformed federal agents being told they have the right to put their hands on the genitals of any man, woman or CHILD who wants to board a commercial passenger aircraft.

(Private jet passengers face no such indignities. They don't even have to pass through security!)

This "right to molest" will soon be extended to trains, buses, boats, and even travel on public roadways. The TSA - in its twisted institutional mind - thinks it controls EVERY mode of transportation. From there, it's a straight line to government buildings, courthouses and while we're at it why not schools, day care and hospitals too?

And what's a traffic stop on a deserted road without a quick feel of the female driver and her kids to make sure "everyone's safe?"

These abusive TSA practices are paving the way for this and don't think the social engineers who cooked them up don't know it.

For the most part the media applauds...

One particularly odious little creep, Alan Chartock of WAMC radio in Albany, NY (an NPR affiliate), spent the bulk of his call-in show today (11/16/10) ridiculing people who expressed concerns and cheerleading the morons who think the new "security measures" are a good idea and necessary.

No security expert who is not in the employ of Homeland Security or its countless vendors (actual or wannabe) thinks these abusive practices contribute to public safety in the least.

Stop flying until this bullshit stops

 

The Plan is Simple

1. If you absolutely, positively must fly, opt out of the scanners. Do it to protect your health and privacy.
2. If you can avoid flying, don’t fly. Hit the airlines in the pocketbook until the scanners and gropers are gone. Make the airlines work for us.
3. Raise holy hell. Register your disapproval of the scanners and gropers to your airline, your hotel and all government officials who claim to work for you. Educate your community.

For your Health

Backscatter X-ray uses ionizing radiation, a known cumulative health hazard, to produce images of passengers’ bodies. Children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with defective DNA repair mechanisms are considered to be especially susceptible to the type of DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation. Also at high risk are those who have had, or currently have, skin cancer. Ionizing radiation’s effects are cumulative, meaning that each time you are exposed you are adding to your risk of developing cancer. Since the dosage of radiation from the backscatter X-ray machines is absorbed almost entirely by the skin and tissue directly under the skin, averaging the dose over the whole body gives an inaccurate picture of the actual harm. In their letter of concern, the UCSF faculty members noted that “the dose to the skin could be dangerously high”. The eyes are particularly susceptible to the effects of radiation, and as one study found allowing the eyes to be exposed to radiation can lead to an increased incidence of cataracts.

 

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Want To Know More About Airline Safety? Here Is A Great Starting Point

Airline Industry News

"Extra! Extra!  Read all about it!"

  

 Jerry Zremski is the Washington DC Bureau Chief for 'The Buffalo News' and a great friend and supporter of airline whistleblowers and a strong advocate of enhancements to safety within the airline industry.  Thank you for your courage in reporting, Jerry! 
Please take the time to read the letter below before reading Jerry's article:

An Open Letter to Mr. Scott Maurer - Colgan Air 3407 Next-of-Kin Witness at

Senator  Dorgan's Congressional Hearing Held on June 17, 2009 in Washington, DC

Flight 3407 group finds ally on safety
By Jerry Zremski
NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF


Published:October 27, 2010, 12:00 AM 

WASHINGTON — Regional airlines aren’t perceived as being as safe as their big-name partners, a business travelers group and the Families of Continental Flight 3407 stressed Tuesday at a National Transportation Safety Board symposium on the relationship between the two kinds of air carriers.

When the Business Travel Coalition surveyed its members, one respondent noted that at least one company keeps a “black list” that includes “certain carriers that they won’t allow their employees to fly on,” said Kevin Mitchell, the group’s chairman.

Also at the symposium, John Kausner — whose daughter, Ellyce, was one of 50 people killed in the February 2009 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center — noted that his daughter bought her ticket on Continental’s Web site without knowing that the plane would be flown by a regional pilot who never would have been hired by Continental.

That airline — Colgan Air — “passed the buck” after the accident, as did Continental and the Federal Aviation Administration, Kausner said.

“And make no mistake about it: It’s all about the buck,” Kausner added.

John H. Prater, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, said major airlines have laid off highly paid, experienced pilots while contracting with regionals that hire pilots at far lower salaries.

“The industry turned its back on pilots with 5,000, 8,000, 10,000 hours of experience,” Prater said. Meanwhile, regional airlines know that those laid-off pilots “don’t want to work for these food stamp wages, so they say we’ll hire pilots right out of school.”

In response, Roger Cohen, president of the Regional Airline Association, insisted there’s “one level of safety” for the regional airlines and the major carriers.

“Every carrier does recognize that it’s bad for business not to be as safe as you can be,” Cohen said.

Meanwhile, John Meenan, CEO of the Air Transport Association, which represents major airlines, stressed that the declining number of accidents is proof that the commercial aviation system is safe.

But the last six fatal commercial plane crashes in the United States involved regionals. And Deborah A. P. Hersman, chairwoman of the safety board, emphasized that accidents are “learning opportunities” that the industry and the government can examine to make the system even safer.

The crash of Flight 3407 has proved to be just that, prompting legislation to require better pilot training and improved safety measures. Included in that new law is a provision requiring airlines to reveal exactly which regional airline will be operating the flight before a passenger buys a ticket.

“The families created the momentum behind the legislation signed by the president this summer,” Hersman said.

Tuesday, the families got evidence that they are not alone in voicing concerns about a safety gap at the regionals, which are contract operators that handle flights for the majors.

Two-thirds of corporate travel managers surveyed said business travelers had expressed concerns about the safety differences between major and regional airlines.

“Indeed, a majority of corporations indicates that they would be willing to pay much higher air fares in return for higher safety standards at the regional airlines,” the Business Travel Coalition said in its survey report.

In addition, more than three-quarters of the 212 travel managers surveyed this month said business travelers are often confused about who’s really flying their airplane.

In response to the safety concerns, the airline industry has pushed back.

In fact, the FAA appointed a Regional Airline Association safety official to head a panel beginning work on a proposed rule to put tougher pilot experience standards into effect, based on the law passed this summer, and that panel recommended watering down the requirement that new co-pilots have 1,500 hours of experience.

The Flight 3407 families have fought for that requirement and made another push for it Tuesday. More than 40 members of the families group — the largest to travel to Washington yet — attended the forum.

Leaders of the group said they would continue to press the FAA for the full 1,500-hour standard and might even expand their efforts to push to make the major airlines legally liable for safety problems at their regional partners.

“This is a determined, amazing group of people,” said Kevin Kuwik, who led the families’ lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill. “And we’re not going to go away.”

jzremski@buffnews.com

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Has The Public's Perception Of Air Safety Been Deceived?

Whistleblower News Roundup 9.15.10

by Lindsay Bigda on September 15, 2010

( The Whistleblogger / 2010 )

Cincinnati.com: Air Marshal's Office Under Scrutiny

Homeland security officials are focusing this week on the Federal Air Marshal's Cincinnati office as part of a larger investigation into agency misconduct. The Cincinnati office -- which faces allegations of discrimination and retaliation, as well as six federal lawsuits -- has been marked as one of the worst in the country. The oversight committee has intervened in the Cincinnati suits due to allegations of systemic retaliation against potential witnesses.

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It is too important not too!!!

Learn What Really Went On With Your Air Travel Safety

Interview with Robert MacLean, Federal Air Marshal Whistleblower

by Lindsay Bigda on September 15, 2010 ( The Whistleblogger / 2010 )

© Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2010, reprinted with permission. Photo by John Gurzinski.

Robert MacLean served as a Federal Air Marshall (FAM) with the Transportation Security Administration. In 2003, MacLean revealed a cost-cutting plan, via text message, to cancel FAM coverage from long distance flights on the eve of a confirmed al-Qaeda suicidal hijacking plan. The plan never went into effect after Congress protested – based solely on his whistleblowing disclosure.

However, MacLean was fired three years later, when the Transportation Security Administration retroactively labeled the information he reported with a “hybrid-secrecy” label – “sensitive security information.” MacLean fought back against the retaliation, but several years later he still awaits a decision on his appeal before the full Merit Systems Protection Board, which now has new members appointed by President Obama.


GAP: How did people try to stop you from divulging the information you had, and what barriers did you face going forward?


MacLean: At the time, even with my eight years of federal law enforcement experience, I had no clue what the U.S. Office of Special Counsel was. And if you asked me what that office was, I probably would have told you that was a special agency in the DOJ that prosecuted people for political corruption. So I had no idea that it was a place that whistleblowers could go outside of their agencies to make disclosures. I pretty much thought you could only go up your chain of command, eventually to the Inspector General (IG). Even making disclosures to Congress for me was illegal, because it’s going outside the executive branch.

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We Shall Never Forget,,,God Bless US All

For Those That Fly, A Message From Transport Canada

Please arrive three days prior to your flight

More On 'Our Safety' While Traveling On Airlines

• "This is more like a college fraternity than it is a professional government service in some ways," Sidebottom said of the TSA, which is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
  
  • Suits like Leidner’s have been filed over activities at many FAM field offices. Sidebottom says he believes diversity of the agency is at the root of the problem.
  
  "They don’t want women. They don’t want African-Americans. They don’t want Hispanics. They don’t want disabled vets. They don’t want anyone with homosexual tendencies," Sidebottom said. "They want strong, big, burly, white guys who do exactly what they’re told to do and don’t talk back or raise any type of questions about their job with their supervisors."

"Lawsuit Questions Local Federal Air Marshal Ops.

Reported by: Tom McKee Email: tmckee@wcpo.com Last Update: 10:08 am

Lawsuit Questions Local Federal Air Marshal Ops.

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Tales of alleged sexual harassment, discrimination, intimidation and bribery could be part of a hearing Wednesday at U.S. District Court in Covington.

They’re elements of a federal lawsuit filed by Nancy Leidner, the only female Federal Air Marshal (FAM) assigned to the Cincinnati Field Office in Erlanger.

A key component to the suit is whether the issue affects air travel safety.

Leidner had her security clearance revoked in December 2009. Officials from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) say it was because of a $109 expense report error from 2006. The money was repaid, but the TSA ruled she could no longer be trusted with classified information."

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