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    The letter summarizes complaints from a Federal Air Marshal (FAM) that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) have improperly classified the FAM's wife as a "domestic terrorist" in internal databases after she attended a rally in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, though she did not go near the Capitol building. Since then, teams of air marshals have been assigned to conduct surveillance on her flights. The letter requests an investigation into how and why TSA has been labeling Americans as terrorists in their databases and the impact on security missions.

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    The letter summarizes complaints from a Federal Air Marshal (FAM) that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) have improperly classified the FAM's wife as a "domestic terrorist" in internal databases after she attended a rally in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, though she did not go near the Capitol building. Since then, teams of air marshals have been assigned to conduct surveillance on her flights. The letter requests an investigation into how and why TSA has been labeling Americans as terrorists in their databases and the impact on security missions.

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    The letter summarizes complaints from a Federal Air Marshal (FAM) that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) have improperly classified the FAM's wife as a "domestic terrorist" in internal databases after she attended a rally in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, though she did not go near the Capitol building. Since then, teams of air marshals have been assigned to conduct surveillance on her flights. The letter requests an investigation into how and why TSA has been labeling Americans as terrorists in their databases and the impact on security missions.

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    Honorable Kevin McCarthy

    Speaker
    United States House of Representatives

    Honorable Rick Scott


    Committee on Homeland Security
    And Government Affairs

    Honorable Mark Green


    Chairman
    House Homeland security Committee

    Honorable Jim Jordan


    Chairman
    Committee on the Judiciary
    Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

    Honorable James Comer


    Chairman
    House Oversight Committee

    January 16, 2023

    Distinguished Members,

    DHS Secretary Mayorkas and TSA/FAMS are Classifying Innocent Americans as


    Domestic Terrorists

    We have recently become aware that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
    and the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) are improperly classifying innocent Americans as
    “Domestic Terrorists” on internal TSA/FAMS databases and watchlists. Most of these
    classifications occur in the absence of any investigation or even any follow up.

    is a Federal Air Marshal with over 27 years of law enforcement


    experience currently assigned to the field office. On January 4, 2021
    traveled to Washington D.C. to attend a Trump rally at the Ellipse park
    near the White House. Following a speech on January 6, 2021 returned to hotel.
    It’s important to note never set foot near the Capitol grounds. In fact,
    suffers from a disability that makes it difficult for her to walk long distances.

    On July 13, 2021, booked airline tickets to travel to see family. Upon her
    booking airline tickets who worked in the section of the
    FAM office noticed that the TSA/FAMS had classified his wife as a “Domestic Terrorist” and as
    such assigned teams of air marshals to her flights to conduct in-depth surveillance of and
    companions, which in this case were their children. FAM immediately notified his
    chain of command about the mistake, their response was to “let it work itself out”.
    flew and the air marshal teams assigned to surveil her and their children made note on their
    conversations, noting their behaviors, documenting her electronic devices, and following her
    and their children even after they left the aircraft.

    Most recently in December 2022 was still labeled a “Domestic Terrorist” as she
    and FAM flew to visit family over the holidays. FAM per policy had to identify
    himself to the teams of air marshals assigned to he and his wife’s flight as he was carrying his
    agency issued firearm on the flight. You can imagine the scene when a team of air marshals are
    assigned to surveil a person labeled a terrorist and the co-traveler of that person approaches
    the team and identifies himself as a federal agent carrying a gun. Under current TSA policy that
    team would have a duty to immediately report as an insider threat. Moreover,
    the FAM team that was assigned to follow said they were originally
    scheduled for a high-risk international mission, but the agency broke that trip down so they
    could be assigned to flight. Thus, the international flight went uncovered.

    Over two years after January 6, 2021 has never been questioned or even
    approached by any law enforcement agencies about being in D.C. on January 6th or about being
    a domestic terrorist. FAM has made several pleas with his management to stop this
    obvious mistake. Still today is classified as a domestic terrorist and whenever she
    travels TSA/FAMS assigns teams of air marshals to surveil her every move. What makes this
    situation even more unbelievable is that the very agency that classifies as a
    terrorist allows her husband to hold a top-secret security clearance and carry weapons on
    aircraft. Yet to date not one agency supervisor has ever questioned . These facts suggest
    the label is false and the FAMS has reason to know it is improperly classifying Americans as
    terrorists.
    is not alone. We have been hearing many similar stories form our FAM
    membership about being assigned to surveil people that TSA/FAMS labeled domestic terrorists,
    specifically due to being in D.C. on or about January 6th. We received a complaint from a
    person with intimate knowledge of the FAMS unit that assigns these special missions that the
    head of that unit Mr. John Muth gave the FBI the names of every person who flew into or out of
    D.C. on or about January 6, 2021. We believe that Mr. Muth and other managers within the
    FAMS kept that same list of names and improperly entered them into the TSA/FAMS databases.
    We believe their incentive is to show Congress false inflated mission coverage numbers. At the
    expense of Americans constitutional rights.

    We respectfully request you exercise your oversight authority and fully investigate the
    TSA and FAMS domestic surveillance programs to determine, among other things, how and why
    TSA has been labeling Americans as terrorists. Additionally, we request you investigate how
    many high-risk missions are being broken down due to the border deployments and following
    Americans improperly labeled as terrorists. The actions of Mr. Mayorkas and TSA/FAMS
    amount to at best massive fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer money and trust. At worst we
    have a government agency that has succumb to political bias and is intentionally violating
    Americans’ first amendment rights and right to due process.

    The AMNC stands ready to provide evidence and testimony in regards to all the
    allegations in this letter.

    Respectfully submitted,

    ________________________
    David Londo
    President
    Air Marshal National Council

    ________________________
    Sonya Hightower-LaBosco
    Executive Director
    Air Marshal National Council

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