Quiet Skies began as an effort at the Transportation Security Administration to better allocate air marshals’ time. According to a TSA spokesman, air marshals used to be assigned to first-class ...

Quiet Skies was a $200 million-a-year ghost hunt that swapped due process for paranoia and turned air marshals into glorified skybound voyeurs with clipboards. advertisement. SOFREP.

In a letter filed in response to the audit, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said 58 travelers who were initially monitored under the Quiet Skies program from 2014 to 2020 were eventually labeled ...

Quiet Skies was launched during the Obama administration as a counterterrorism program. REUTERS. In contrast, “non-politically aligned members,” including former Democratic Hawaii ...

TSA’s program, dubbed Quiet Skies, was revealed July 28 by The Boston Globe. The program deploys air marshals, who fly armed and undercover to thwart terrorists , to track dozens of suspicious ...

Quiet Skies surveillance is an expansion of a long-running practice in which federal air marshals are assigned to surveil the subject of an open FBI terrorism investigation.

The TSA's "Quiet Skies" initiative started in 2010 and was expanded just last March. The program, as first reported by the Boston Globe, identifies travelers, including American citizens, ...

Until FY 2018, Quiet Skies program costs totaled about $1.2 million for Intelligence and Analysis activities for about six years. OIG’s review found that TSA did not properly plan, implement, and ...

In a briefing with congressional committee staffers, TSA officials provided details on the “Quiet Skies” program, which expanded in March to include monitoring by teams of armed, undercover ...