| The head of the federal
agency created after 9/11 to protect the nation’s transportation system
is accused of fraud, waste, and abuse of authority for unlawfully deploying
assets to the Mexican border to perform duties unrelated to transportation,
according to a report filed with the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) Inspector General. In the formal complaint to the DHS
watchdog, the Air Marshal National Council, which represents thousands of
Federal Air Marshals (FAM) nationwide, accuses Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske and FAM Director Tirrell
Stevenson of violating federal law and overstepping their authority for
assigning the highly trained aviation security specialists to assist the
U.S. Border Patrol with the illegal immigration crisis. FAM operates under
TSA and both function under DHS. |
