Department of Homeland Insecurity

Oh boy, doesn't this make me feel safe?

Ervin's report said 104 air marshals who had been granted security clearances had been involved in 155 cases of misconduct when they worked for the Bureau of Prisons previously. Offenses included falling asleep on duty, verbal abuse, breach of security, physical abuse of an inmate and misuse of government property and credit cards.

Between February and October 2002, there were 753 documented reports of sleeping on duty, lying, testing positive for alcohol or illegal drugs while on the job or losing weapons, the report said. In many cases, air marshals were suspended with pay.

And these are the people who ARE allowed to carry firearms aboard commercial aircraft? A lot of comfort that's gonna be to the passengers on-board when Ahmed and Abdul start slitting throats while six-year-old Timmy is playing with the air marshal's Sig P229 he just found in a men's room at Logan Airport.