Political Quotes

“I wish to cover something that happened today. A revelation was just made a few hours ago at a hearing in the House. I will give the history of this. As we all know, after the President's opening toward Cuba, there was increased travel to Cuba, now including the opening of commercial travel to the island from the United States. Back in May, the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security told the House Homeland Security Committee that new scheduled air service from the United States to Cuba, and vice versa, was not going to start until air marshals were allowed to be onboard those flights. In August, the TSA provided the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, as well as reporters, a statement . . . [and they said] that the United States and Cuba had ``entered into an aviation security agreement that sets forth the legal framework for the deployment'' of air marshals ``on board certain flights to and from Cuba.'' Today, at a hearing in the House, ``a top TSA official divulged [for the first time] . . . that Cuba has yet to agree to allow U.S. air marshals aboard scheduled airline flights between the two countries-- meaning there have been no air marshals on board thus far, despite'' the fact that the administration said there would be. So, basically, what we have here is an outright lie.…”