TSA admits 'Quiet Skies' surveillance snared zero threats
Source: The Boston Globe
By Jana Winter SPOTLIGHT FELLOW AUGUST 03, 2018
Federal air marshals have closely monitored about 5,000 US citizens on domestic flights in recent months under the controversial “Quiet Skies” program, but none were deemed so suspicious that they required further scrutiny, according to three people with direct knowledge of a congressional briefing held Thursday with the Transportation Security Administration.
TSA officials were summoned to Capitol Hill Wednesday and Thursday afternoon following Globe reports on the secret program, which sparked sharp criticism because it includes extensive surveillance of domestic fliers who are not suspected of a crime or listed on any terrorist watch list.
“Quiet Skies is the very definition of Big Brother,” Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee, said broadly about the program. “American travelers deserve to have their privacy and civil rights protected even 30,000 feet in the air.”
In an hourlong briefing with congressional committee staffers, TSA officials provided details on the Quiet Skies program, which expanded in March to include monitoring by teams of armed, undercover air marshals.
Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/02/tsa-says-quiet-skies-surveillance-snared-zero-threats/dsCm4BG3pq8v3xhi01zhLI/story.html
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Hell, it might work for the current republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief. Either that, or the republican Two Scoops security scheme. Just trying to help the repubes overcome their tragic FAIL.
