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Article: Air marshals have tough time blending in, but it may get easier
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- July 4, 2004
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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 dress code as inaccurate and overblown.
Air marshals are supposed to ...