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Article: Air marshals still hiding in plain sight.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- July 2, 2004
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Byline: Larry Sandler
MILWAUKEE _ Contrary to assurances from top federal officials, security procedures continue to expose the identities of undercover federal air marshals at airports nationwide, internal federal memos and e-mails show.
Chief among the concerns, air marshals say, is a dress code that makes them so obvious that they're spotted by 12-year-olds, chatted up by congressmen and ridiculed by flight attendants.
Spokesmen for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security say officials recognize problems with boarding procedures and are working to correct them, although not as quickly as they had hoped. But they dismiss concerns about the ...