Exclusive: Whistleblower John Casaretti Calls on Trump to Separate Air Marshal Service from TSA

Exclusive: Whistleblower John Casaretti Calls on Trump to Separate Air Marshal Service from TSA


John Casaretti, an air travel safety whistleblower and president of the Air Marshal Association, called on President Donald Trump and Congress to act quickly to allow the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) to operate as its own agency without “bureaucracy” to better stop potential terrorist attacks in an exclusive Breitbart News Saturday interview with Matthew Boyle.

While the FAMS was launched in the 1960s under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the order of President John F. Kennedy, it was moved to TSA in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“Everything the air marshals did around 2007 onwards was all through the lens of the TSA bureaucracy. TSA only cares about screeners,” Casaretti said. “They don’t have any deep experience with law enforcement.

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