According to ABC News, the TSA is planning to reduce the number of Air Marshals on flights, in order to save money.
According to CNN, though, that’s not true at all. I wonder if it was true until someone leaked it to the press and then it became untrue. wink wink
A Department of Homeland Security spokesman told CNN a directive sent out last weekend calls on marshals to address the current threat to aviation security and to expand their mission as need be.
The official said that “there’s no slowdown, cutting, stoppage” in the strategy of placing armed, plainclothes law enforcement officers on certain flights.