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2021-05-16 Government Corruption
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Maxine Waters among lawmakers accused of using air marshals as a 'concierge service'
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[NYPOST] Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
 ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 29.45497 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 44.45292 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
(D-Calif.) may not be the biggest fan of police, but she apparently has no qualms about federal air marshals.
The liberal politician is among the members of Congress from both parties accused of turning a program created to protect airline passengers in the wake of 9/11 into a "concierge service," Fox News reported Friday.
According to the Air Marshal National Council union, politicians began requesting extra protection while traveling to and from their districts — and even while going on vacation — in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.
In response to those requests, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) allegedly began pulling marshals from flights deemed "high-risk" so that they could protect members of Congress instead.
One of those was Waters, who flew from Washington to Minneapolis last month during the late stages of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
During her visit, Waters made headlines when she told news hounds that if Chauvin wasn’t convicted, anti-police protesters would have to "stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational."
According to a House Ethics Committee
...think of a nudibranch pretending to be a vertebrate...
complaint, Waters was accompanied on her April 17 flight to Minneapolis by two armed Capitol Police and two U.S. Secret Service agents, according to the report.
She then requested two air marshals to join her on the plane and two more to escort her through the Minneapolis airport when she arrived.
U.S. Capitol Police denied to Fox News that any of their officers accompanied Waters.
The complaint states that the air marshals were moved off a high-risk flight to accompany Waters to Minnesota. The flight they were moved from allegedly "took off with no armed law enforcement on board leaving a gap in National Security."
"That was not an official business trip," Air Marshal National Council executive director Sonya Hightower LoBasco told Fox News. "We still don’t have any justification as to why government resources were utilized to fly Ms. Waters out to Minnesota." 
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