Who's Sorry Now?
The American Public. And you, if you're one of the unlucky Americans who landed on the US Air Marshall's SDR Watch list.
When we read headlines like this we wonder who the originating country might be....China? Cuba? Russia? What? America?!? No!
Yes. The brilliant Air Marshalls - in order to FILL OUT QUOTAS - are beefing up the SDR (Surveillance Detection Report) with people just like you - taking pictures of you and your family on the plane (we're not kidding). Read it and weep:
"You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they're reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal."
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal."
