The move to pull air marshals from any flight requiring them to stay overnight is particularly disturbing to some because it coincides with a new high-level hijacking threat issued by the Department of Homeland Security. That warning memo says that “at least one of these attacks could be executed by the end of the summer,” according to a source familiar with the document.
This simply has to be a major screw-up on their part. I can’t think of any explanation for it that would afford them a soft landing or deliberate intent worth the negative feedback.
If you missed it, an article by Jim McDermott was published earlier this month in The American Prospect about the Bush administration’s “dangerous manufacturing of post-9-11 dread.”
[Update 4:11 p.m.]…Flip-flop.
If they were ‘working’ on this ‘all weekend’ why hadn’t anyone informed the marshals of it?