[3625] in Humor
New Gov't Agency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Mon Mar 11 14:18:28 2002
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From: "Andrew Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:11:54 -0500
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>Almost 150 years ago, President Lincoln found it necessary to hire private
>investigator, Mr. Alan Pinkerton. He was actually the beginning of the
>Secret Service.
>
>Since that time federal police authority has grown to a large number of
>agencies - FBI, CIA, INS, IRS, DEA, BATF, SS, ATF, etc.
>
>Now Congress is considering a proposal for another agency: the "Federal
>Air Transportation Airport Security Service."
>
>Can't you see it now, the new service in their black outfits with their
>initials in large white letters across their backs?
>
>F.A.T.A.S.S.
