{"id":153,"date":"2003-07-30T22:39:52","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:17","slug":"the_toofriendly_skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"The Too-Friendly Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/nationworld\/content\/news\/050903\/0509pilots.html\" target=\"browser\">Dragging their feet on arming pilots<\/a>, the Administration is also moving, as an economy measure, to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20030730_583.html\" target=\"browser\">reduce the number of armed Air Marshals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Transportation Security Administration wants to reduce the number of air marshals to save money, even as the government is warning about the possibility al-Qaida may try more suicide hijackings.<\/p>\n<p>The TSA is seeking approval from Congress to cut $104 million from the air marshal program to help offset a $900 million budget shortfall. It&#8217;s unclear how many of the estimated several thousand air marshal jobs would be affected.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to suggest that they don&#8217;t have good plan, or anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragging their feet on arming pilots, the Administration is also moving, as an economy measure, to reduce the number of armed Air Marshals. The Transportation Security Administration wants to reduce the number of air marshals to save money, even as the government is warning about the possibility al-Qaida may try more suicide hijackings. The TSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}