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[Clips] [IP] DO READ --- Quota system for Air Marshal Surveillance Detection Reports?
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--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:02:29 -0400 To: "Philodox Clips List" <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] [IP] DO READ --- Quota system for Air Marshal Surveillance Detection Reports? Reply-To: clips-chat(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com --- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Subject: [IP] DO READ --- Quota system for Air Marshal Surveillance Detection Reports? Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:08:28 -0400 To: ip(a)v2.listbox.com Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net Begin forwarded message: From: "Brock N. Meeks" <bmeeks(a)cox.net> Date: July 26, 2006 9:45:28 AM EDT To: dave(a)farber.net Subject: Re: [IP] Quota system for Air Marshal Surveillance Detection Reports? Well, it so happens that I was the one that BROKE this story... way back in 2004. There were at least two offices, Miami and Las Vegas that had this quota system for writing up and filing "SDRs." The requirement was totally renegade and NOT endorsed by Air Marshal officials in Washington. The Las Vegas Air Marshal field office was (I think he's retired now) by a real cowboy at the time, someone that caused a lot of problems for the Washington HQ staff. (That official once grilled an Air Marshal for three hours in an interrogation room because he thought the air marshal was source of mine on another story. The air marshal was then taken off flight status and made to wash the office cars for two weeks... I broke that story, too. And no, the punished air marshal was never a source of mine.) Air marshals told they were filing false reports, as they did below, just to hit the quota. When my story hit, those in the offices of Las Vegas and Miami were reprimanded and the practice was ordered stopped by Washington HQ. I suppose the biggest question I have for this story is the HYPE of what happens to these reports. They do NOT place the person mention on a "watch list." These reports, filed on Palm Pilot PDAs, go into an internal Air Marshal database that is rarely seen and pretty much ignored by other intelligence agencies, from all sources I talked to. Why? Because the air marshals are seen as little more than "sky cops" and these SDRs considered little more than "field interviews" that cops sometimes file when they question someone loitering at a 7-11 too late at night. The quota system, if it is still going on, is heinous, but it hardly results in the big spooky data collection scare that this cheapjack Denver "investigative" TV reporter makes it out to be. The quoted former field official from Atlanta, Don Strange, did, in fact, lose his job over trying to chance internal policies. He was the most well-liked official among the rank and file and the Atlanta office, under his command, had the highest morale in the nation. On 7/26/06 7:25 AM, "David Farber" <dave(a)farber.net> wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob(a)drzyzgula.org> > Date: July 25, 2006 10:25:37 PM EDT > To: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > Cc: ip(a)v2.listbox.com > Subject: Quota system for Air Marshal Surveillance Detection Reports? > > > http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9559707/detail.html > > | DENVER -- 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. > | > | These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong > | are landing in a secret government document called a > | Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told > | 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to > | maintain this potentially dangerous quota system. > | > | [...] > | > | That's why several air marshals object to a July 2004 memo > | from top management in the Las Vegas office, a memo that > | reminded air marshals of the SDR requirement. > | > | The body of the memo said, "Each federal air marshal is > | now expected to generate at least one SDR per month." > | > | "Does that memo read to you that Federal Air Marshal > | headquarters has set a quota on these reports?" Kovaleski > | asked. > | > | "Absolutely, no doubt," an air marshal replied. > | > | A second management memo, also dated July 2004, said, > | "There may come an occasion when you just don't see > | anything out of the ordinary for a month at a time, but I'm > | sure that if you are looking for it, you'll see something." > | > | [...] > > > ------------------------------------- > You are subscribed as bmeeks(a)cox.net > To manage your subscription, go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > > Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- > people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as rah(a)shipwright.com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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[Clips] Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota
by R.A. Hettinga 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:59:25 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota Reply-To: clips-chat(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://www.thedenverchannel.com/print/9559707/detail.html> TheDenverChannel.com Related To Story Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota Marshals Say They Must File One Surveillance Detection Report, Or SDR, Per Month POSTED: 9:49 pm MDT July 21, 2006 UPDATED: 10:56 pm MDT July 21, 2006 DENVER -- 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. These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system. "Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?" 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked. "Absolutely," a federal air marshal replied. 7NEWS obtained an internal Homeland Security document defining an SDR as a report designed to identify terrorist surveillance activity. "When you see a decision like this, for these reports, who loses here?" Kovaleski asked. "The people we're supposed to protect -- the American public," an air marshal said. What kind of impact would it have for a flying individual to be named in an SDR? "That could have serious impact ... They could be placed on a watch list. They could wind up on databases that identify them as potential terrorists or a threat to an aircraft. It could be very serious," said Don Strange, a former agent in charge of air marshals in Atlanta. He lost his job attempting to change policies inside the agency. That's why several air marshals object to a July 2004 memo from top management in the Las Vegas office, a memo that reminded air marshals of the SDR requirement. The body of the memo said, "Each federal air marshal is now expected to generate at least one SDR per month." "Does that memo read to you that Federal Air Marshal headquarters has set a quota on these reports?" Kovaleski asked. "Absolutely, no doubt," an air marshal replied. A second management memo, also dated July 2004, said, "There may come an occasion when you just don't see anything out of the ordinary for a month at a time, but I'm sure that if you are looking for it, you'll see something." Another federal air marshal said that not only is there a quota in Las Vegas for SDRs, but that "it directly reflects on (their) performance evaluations" and on how much money they make. The director of the Air Marshal Service, Dana Brown, declined 7NEWS' request for an interview on the quota system. But the agency points to a memo from August 2004 that said there is not a quota for submitting SDRs and which goes on to say, "I do not expect reports that are inaccurate or frivolous." But, Las Vegas-based air marshals say the quota system remains in force, now more than two years after managers sent the original memos, and that it's a mandate from management that impacts annual raises, bonuses, awards and special assignments. "To meet this quota, to get their raises, do you think federal air marshals in Las Vegas are making some of this stuff up?" Kovaleski asked. "I know they are. It's a joke," an air marshal replied. "Have marshals in the Las Vegas office, I don't want to say fabricated, but 'created' reports?" Kovaleski asked. "Creative writing -- stretching a long ways the truth, yes," an air marshal replied. One example, according to air marshals, occurred on one flight leaving Las Vegas, when an unknowing passenger, most likely a tourist, was identified in an SDR for doing nothing more than taking a photo of the Las Vegas skyline as his plane rolled down the runway. "You're saying that was not an accurate portrayal of a potential terrorist activity?" Kovaleski asked. "No, it was not," an air marshal said. "It was a marshal trying to meet a quota ..." Kovaleski said. "Yes, he was," the air marshal replied. Strange said he didn't have a quota in the Atlanta office when he was in charge. "I would never have done that ... You are going to have people reporting every suspicious looking activity they come across, whether they in their heart feel like it's a threat, just to meet the quota," Strange said. Strange and other air marshals said the quota allows the government to fill a database with bad information. A Las Vegas air marshal said he didn't write an SDR every month for exactly that reason. "Well, it's intelligence information, and like any system, if you put garbage in, you get garbage out," the air marshal said. "I would like to see an investigation -- a real investigation conducted into the ways things are done here," the air marshal in Las Vegas said. Although the agency strongly denies any presence of a quota system, Las Vegas-based air marshals have produced documents that show their performance review is directly linked to producing SDRs. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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