Article: Air marshals win procedure changes

Air marshals win procedure changes

Undercover agents won't have to sign in publicly, officials say

By LARRY SANDLER lsandler@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

Thursday, May 6, 2004

Federal authorities are changing some of the procedures that undercover air marshals believed were exposing their identities, U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and a Federal Air Marshals Service spokesman said Wednesday.

Kohl said Tom Quinn, director of the air marshals service, told him air marshals no longer have to sign their names to logbooks at airport screening checkpoints and now can board airliners at any time before, during or after regular passenger boarding.

Quinn is still working on ways to end the ...

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