We knew something underhanded was up from the beginning. Why do you push a piece of junk despite its uselessness for the task at hand? Why did we have countless man hours of training on a device that was never used?

It is interesting that most of the ex-USSS people brag only of their hustles and hook-ups and not of the bad guys they put away or good they have done helping people as a PUBLIC SERVANT. Maybe the government should consider rotating Secret Service personnel through law enforcement jobs during their career to minimize the immorality and scams that seem to infest their ranks after a career scamming around the politicos.

Just a thought.

I had informants with more honor than a lot of the ex-SS personnel infesting the FAMS.

Here's a simple solution to the FAMS's problems...

1. Screw the dress code, too easy to pick out on a plane anyway.
2. Get rid of the PDAs, Blackberries will work just fine and I'm sure they're cheaper and have the same functions.
3. Find a down home, good ole country boy who thinks practically and rationally to head up this service. While everyone else chases the almighty dollar, this kind of person does what needs to be done.

Problem Solved...

Tom Quinn should be indicted for theft from the American people.

It is not like he did anything to mitigate this theft. He left the FAMS as an agency in disarray. Management provides no leadership and very little management either.

Our entire workforce is disillusioned about any future in law enforcement.

I just hope Don Strange is not totally into retirement. We want a leader of his caliber. We want someone in the FAMS chain of command we can respect.

This is nothing new to the FAMs flying. We see theft of resources all around us by managers looking to cash in.

Tom Quinn was seen as a scumbag from the first time he publicly called his own employees "amateurs" and "peabrains". I would rather be an honest amateur than a professional thief and liar.

I am so disgusted with the FAMS and the government in general. My husband retired from the Special Forces and joined the FAMS to become the unhappiest person. He went from working for the best leaders to working for the worst. At least his co-workers seem to be good people.

I pray he can get a new job soon and be happy once again.

I wish Congress would just cut the budget of the Sky Marshals. Their Director seems to think our tax dollars grow on trees.

The SAC of the Chicago office, would MANDATE PDA reports. He even created a shame list for the whole office, so everyone could see who wasn't using their PDA. If you didn't have any for the month you were admonished and disciplined. If he wanted PDA reports well he sure got them. And boy, did he get them.

Put a "moron" in the whitewash house and guess what the trickle down theory will be?

As Bush would tell the FAMS...eat your peanuts and enjoy the flights.

How can Quinn be approved to work for the company he provided with a $22,000,000 contract? We need some new lawyers in gov't ethics offices.

I'm just wondering why the politicals were trying to take down Karl Truscott at ATF with those news stories about shower curtains?

What did he do to cross the White House?

This waste is horrible. FEMA, Abramoff and now Tom Quinn.

This makes $600 toilet seats seem reasonable.

Tom Quinn fleeced America for his own personal profit. I bet he is smiling wide.

I think if one does their home work they would find he probably had an association with this company before he entered the FAM Service. Whilst he had his own bussiness! Ethics well if this doesn't violate Ethics what does? Maybe someone needs to do a Ethics 101 course for business.

I can tell you that story is 100% correct. The pda is not even able to make a simple phone call. I bet if Tom Quinn held stock in Dixie Cups we would be issued two of those with strings attatched. For Christmas I will ask Santa to wake the American people up, and finally get a leader running the FAMS that we can respect.

Mr. Quinn should go to jail. As a taxpayer and a FAM, I am disgusted with the corruption in the Air Marshal Service. Yes, Mr. Quinn in my opinion is a thief along with DATAMAXX. They have robbed the American people. Where is the congressional outcry? Where are you Under Secretary Hawley? Secretary Chertoff do you have anything to say? I would hope that they would order an immediate investigation into this theft. Trust me on this one, they will start looking for the people who let the cat out of the bag. We need leadership. I define leadership as someone who is ethical, honest and morally sound. Hmmm, I have a noval idea. Bring back Mr. Don Strange the former SAC of the Atlanta Field Office and let him clean house.

These Secret Service that are running the Air Marshal Service are all criminals. They made sure that only former SS agents have the supervisor jobs. The administration from line supervisor on up is made up of 95% SS. In fact, they made a policy that you don't have to have any Air Marshal experiance to become a supervisor or administration because none of the losers have ever done the job or want to. James West thay are NOT!!!!I do the job to serve and protect the public and will continue to do so. NO 911 ON MY SHIFT, OVER MY DEAD BODY. The SS do the job to steal and rob from the American public.

Thieves go to jail for 'grad school' to learn new tricks from their peers in prison.

Ex-Secret Service thieves go to work in the FAMS to perfect their crimes.

I have to agree with Seattle FAM above - Tom Quinn is a scumbag! So are my bosses. I cannot wait to find a job in the private sector where I can try to respect my bosses again.

The only thing that will save this agency is the hiring of Don Strange as FAMS Director.

Here is the #1 reason he is The Man for the Job: Tom Quinn fired Don Strange when he did his job.

God bless Don Strange and the flying FAMs that persevere in an environment of waste and stupidity. May God bring a bit of justice to those stealing from the American people.

Where is the OIG investigation? Why is ABC news not interviewing the OIG for the Department of Homeland Security or the General Accounting Office? Damn it... the entire Federal Air Marshal Service is run by ex-U.S. Secret Service agents who have no clue about aviation security. How can this happen? What kind of dirt do they have on the President? I am going to forward this to the FBI!

If nothing else, the Federal Air Marshal Service has exposed the corruption and incomptence of the Secret Service. It's all smoke, mirrors, suits and ties. It appears that these retired secret service punks are rewarded with big federal executive jobs through out the country. Gee, now I know why our federal agencies are so filled with corruption. And now we know what the SECRET in SECRET SERVICE is. They're CROOKS! WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TO LATE.