Air Marshal National Council

🚨 ATTEMPTED HIJACKING!!UNITED FLIGHT 2174 SENT A HIJACK ALERT. NO FEDERAL AIR MARSHALS ON BOARD!!

On Nov. 9, a passenger allegedly claimed to have a bomb and tried to enter the cockpit on a flight from Newark to New Orleans. DHS says he had been deported twice and had a criminal history involving bomb threats and terroristic threats.

Secretary Mullin, the flying public deserves answers.

▪️ Were any Federal Air Marshals aboard Flight 2174?
▪️ How many air marshals were flying missions nationwide that night? How many supervisors were flying?
▪️ What did DHS know about the suspect before he boarded? Did passenger vetting flag him?

A Senate report found that TSA assigned air marshals to monitor Tulsi Gabbard on at least five flights under Quiet Skies. DHS should explain what put her under surveillance and whether its vetting picked up the suspect’s reported history.

The crew got Flight 2174 safely on the ground. Now DHS owes the public a straight answer about how it deploys the people charged with protecting our flights.

America deserves answers. America deserves better.
@LaboscoSonya @sarahadams @BreannaMorello @SecMullinDHS @realDonaldTrump

MOST OF THE SAME PEOPLE ARE STILL IN CHARGE

🚨 YEARS OF WATCHDOG WARNINGS. WHO WAS HELD ACCOUNTABLE?

GAO and DHS’s inspector general documented repeated failures involving the Federal Air Marshal Service:

✈️ DEPLOYMENT: Resources divided between domestic and international flights without fully accounting for risk. International deployment decisions lacked documented rationales.

👁️ QUIET SKIES: Inadequate planning, oversight, and performance measures. TSA did not consistently follow its own guidance—and could not assure the surveillance program enhanced aviation security as intended.

🚧 BORDER DEPLOYMENTS: Air marshals sent to the Southwest border without an assessment of the operational risks to their transportation-security mission. Missing baseline measures prevented TSA from determining the impact.

😴 FATIGUE: Shift-length and rest-period guidelines existed, but FAMS did not monitor actual hours against them. Leadership could not determine how often marshals exceeded those safeguards.

🩺 WORKFORCE HEALTH: No comprehensive assessment of workforce health despite marshals reporting sleep deprivation and other health concerns.

⚖️ DISCRIMINATION: A prevention plan left incompletely implemented because management lost focus. GAO documented 230 discrimination complaints during FY2016–2018—complaints, not 230 proven violations.

🎯 EFFECTIVENESS: TSA lacked methods to assess how effectively its aviation-security countermeasures, including FAMS, deterred attacks.

These are findings from the government’s own watchdogs.

The American people should demand measurable security results, meaningful oversight, and leadership that protects the people protecting passengers.

📄 GAO-16-582
📄 GAO-20-125
📄 GAO-24-107824
📄 DHS OIG-21-11
📄 DHS OIG-24-35

#TSA #AirMarshals #Accountability @LaboscoSonya @BreannaMorello @TSA

🚨HE IS STILL IN CHARGE🚨

TSA’s Brian Belcher owes Americans answers. This Senate report says FAMS leadership was “comfortable” with its actions after innocent Americans were watchlisted.

Comfortable? Americans deserve accountability—not a leadership circle congratulating itself. Congress must demand answers. @LaboscoSonya @TSA @DHSgov

🚨WILL WE EVER SEE ACCOUNTABILITY?🚨

In Orlando, the Air Marshal National Council asked DHS’s inspector general to investigate whether Special Agent in Charge Alana Bell ignored repeated requests for air marshal support during an operation that located 122 missing and exploited children. The council said staffing logs showed personnel were available.
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In Houston, Senior Federal Air Marshal Mark Crowder told the Senate that when he raised concerns about his wife being flagged as a domestic terrorist, Special Agent in Charge William Aupperlee told him to stay silent and let the investigation run its course. Crowder testified that his wife was subjected to roughly 13 air marshal surveillance missions.
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In Washington, Judicial Watch reported that former Assistant Special Agent in Charge Serge Potapov helped create a congressional VIP escort program that pulled air marshals off high-risk flights.
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Congress should ask TSA for the deployment records, who signed off on each decision, and what happened after these concerns were raised. The flying public deserves answers. @LaboscoSonya @BreannaMorello @wmahoney5