Maybe the OSC will be a real check on the abuses in the FAMS. I won't hold my breath as they see to wiggle out of so many investigations.

The memories of those lost on 9/11 cannot continue to be used by upper and middle level bureaucrats who see it as a chance to cash in and get another pension. We need managers who really care about preventing another 9/11.

A major problem as you may know whith the Federal Air Marshal Service is that almost all of the supervisors have never done the job. Many came from the secret service which is far from secret and every time a issue is brought up to some of then you know that their response will be that "in the secret service". They must realize that they are no longer in the secret service and this agency cannot be run like the secret service and be effective. Most team leaders only fly on high profile missions and on occasion with a trip of choice.

I am sure management reads these.... Please do something right now. Stop the madness, do the right thing. You would think now that we have this London incident, that you would capitalize on the situation and use it to make sweeping reform and still save face. Yet, still, the same issues come up. Boarding, hotels..ie, so many of us at one hotel it looks like a FAM convention!! Do you want to foil plots of terror? or make it easier to carry them out. ACT NOW!

Anything less than 100% effort on management's part to change the problems, is just criminal negligence!

Semper Fi!

This should have happened years ago. It is about time. There is a lot of fraud and waste of government money from the ATSACS to the Executive management of this agency. They claim they know how to do the job, but most of them are barely qualified to flip burgers.

In order for the Federal Air Marshal Service to become affective it will have to rid itself of all the Secret Service on top. 90% of management jobs are taken by the retired SS all of whom are also collecting retirement benefits from their previous job at the SS. It's a little known clause called the DC fire and police act which basically placed all these retired SS as DC city employees and not official federal employees thus, they can retire w/ federal benefits and come back and work under the fed again and double dip. Why would this be a problem? Because they aren't vested in the job as air marshals. It's not their career because they've had their career. It's the old saying, "Who paints a rented house". Simply put, the SS don't want to rock the boat and be kicked off this gravy train so they don’t challenge any of these insane policies. You don't need the OSC, just fire every SS manager and replace them w/ flying FAMs and put Don Strange as the director. It's that simple

Frank Terreri is the only government "whislteblower" in history to have been invited to a meeting with the Director of an agency, wined and dined, then offered a job. Can anybody else on this Blotter remember when any other real government whistleblower has received the same treatment? Every other REAL government whistleblower I have ever read about was just retaliated against and terminated.

Something really stinks here.

the only way this investigation is going to actually work is to ensure that none of the investigators, who will be tasked to get to the bottom of all htat stinks within the FAM program, ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE SECRET SERVICE.

Hey Stinks....

If you are suggesting Frank is a sellout, then you don't know him. I do, and I can say that he would rather be terminated than give in to management. All the ACLU lawsuit coverage is why they are wining and dining him and it isn't changing anything for Frank, trust me! You can count on his integrity. Are you management trying to bash him or what?

Semper Fi!

Hey Jarhead,

You can spend all day on here trying to convince everybody and their sister what a great guy Frank Terreri is... but.... I'm sure you have heard this a million times before: "Actions speak louder than words." FAMs have had it up to their eyeballs with words, and all I'm hearing from you is more words. I'm basing my opinion on are actions.... Terreri's actions. And I don't like what I see. So nice try Jarhead, but something still stinks. By the way Jarhead, you didn't answer my question. Name just ONE government whistleblower in the history of this country, who after "whistleblowing", was called by the director of their agency to be wined and dined, then offered a job. Well? I'm waiting for your answer.

Its really start to stink bad now.

I am afraid Terreri is thinking all about Terreri now. He chewed out a fine correspondant from ABC News and told him that HE was the only whistleblower and not Spencer or anyone else. Real team player for you!

I agree with some of the posts above. Don Strange needs to be brought back and the SS hustlers, cheats and liars need to go back to their cush jobs doing background investigations or early retirement. They are an embarassment to all FAMs with integrity.

Frank has sold out guys for his own little position. He will probably get handpicked for the Ombudsman position soon.

It was a shame he could not stay focused on the mission. Hmmm, just like our (mis-)management.

All the FLEOA FAMs not sure what to think about Terreri. Did you notice that you aren't getting FLEOAMAIL about all the news stories that have been on this blotter and in the media lately unless it is positive about Dana Brown or about Terreri? If that doesn't stink of sellout then what does it say? It will all be clear if Terreri takes the job created for him.

I don't blame Terreri for wanting to better his life and throw in the towel but he needs to step down from his position if he is giving up the fight and selling out!

I am actually leaving for the Secret Service. I know what you are thinking guys, but they say most all of the dead weight and morons actually left the SS for the FAMS. I wish my brothers well.

Anyone who would use their autistic child in a press release to enhance the sensationalism about the agency's treatment against them, has got to have some serious psychological issues to deal with. The next time they come and take your badge and gun away, stand up like a man and quit whining about it, and for God's sake, leave the innocent disabled kids out of your self-serving publicity.

I wish somebody would come to my house and take away my badge and gun so I could hang around the office all day working out in the gym for four months getting full pay. Terreri walked around the field office for months acting like some poor persecuted victim, and spent most of his day in the gym and then left early. Maybe he was in ATSAC training. Were we supposed to feel sorry for him?

You cowards make me laugh, all anonymous posts, all from the same guy who doesn't have the courage to face me man to man. Your a pathetic joke, along with the other posers who don't have the heart to post a name. You know where I work, my email address and my phone number, come see me and talk your game. I represent 1500 FAMs, you represent none. 99 to 1, you'll never post your name, go crawl back in the corner or continue to be a coward and post anonymously.

It's funny how all the Monday morning FAM Quarterbacks are all coming out of the shadows to bash the FAM who started this movement back in 2002. You cowards were all hiding under your mother's skirt when Terreri ran for FLEOA FAM President. Only two other FAMs ran against him and to this day I have never heard their names again.

Now EVERYBODY jumps on the bandwagon once the tide turns. EVERYBODY now is an expert and Terreri is a "SELL-OUT." Very sad state of affairs within our rank and file.

Mr. Terreri: Take whatever "cushy" job DB has "already promised" you, look out for yourself and your family, then leave the rest to the "expert-ingrates."

Thanks FT for a job well done.

That Terreri would actually respond at all in this medium shows his lack of poise.

Please stand strong Frank and try to remember this is more than about you and your career. It is more than a personality conflict.

A lot of people do not like the fact of FAMs going to ABC to get help, but FLEOA was not making much headway. It seems the exposure and the bravery of those FAMs is helping get some real changes.

To those holding Frank on a pedestal - others have bravely filed complaints on their own. THEY had NO backing of various organizations like the ACLU, POGO, or FLEOA. They stood up bravely and face the retaliation every day for standing up with integrity.

Terreri is just one of the more visible whistleblowers, he is not the sole whistleblower by any means.

No knocks on his kids though. They did not choose him as a dad.

With no particular dog in the fight-

I can say that Frank has done a lot for FAMs. He has been a constant presence in the media and almost all the issues he has brought up affect each and every one of us. He was one of the few voices crying out publicly from the get go.

On the other hand of late a number of public issues have been discussed in the media that have not been forwarded to FLEOA members as they have in times past. Why is that? Why do news stories not reach FLEOA members unless they concern Frank? There are other FAMs talking about security issues that many FLEOA members would not know about unless they troll Delphi. Is it the FLEOA position that they are not relevant? Why are their media stories not deigned worthy of coverage and notice?

My point - Frank should address this issue if he cares about his "constituency." It makes no sense to demand accountability of management and not demand it from our FLEOA reps.

We do not need to be divided now. We need to focus on making the FAM program (hell, all of TSA) the effective counterterrorist agency it needs to be, one the public deserves and not the stop-gap, feel-good measure it is today. And we can only do that as a unit, not one at a time. Otherwise we'll just be picked off.

Infighting will only harm our cause.

Let's get something striaght right now. Frank Terreri is NOT a whistleblower and never was. Maybe some of you should look up the definition of what a whistleblower is. I suggest reading the Whsitleblower Protection Act if you don't. A true whistleblower files a disclosure complaint with a government agency that is authorized to investigate such a complaint and also has the jurisdiction to investigate the complaint. Now I could be wrong (but I think not), but Terreri's complaint to the Office of Special Counsel was his first such complaint.

Now if we are all going to be honest with ourselves, there have been dozens of air marshals that have truly filed whistleblower complaints in the past 4 years, and Frank Terreri isn't one of them. I don't want to diminish what Terreri has done, but before you all run off and make him whistleblower king, maybe some of you should think about all the other air marshals over the past few years who have risked everything, but have not received the publicity Terreri has been receiving. Lastly, I think Terreri should be spending more time as the "representative" of FAMs by doing a bit more acknowledging and representing of the other air marshals, and less time promoting himself. It is starting to become a bit too obvious now.