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Article: Air marshals win procedure changes
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- May 6, 2004
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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 ...