So you're telling me while I'm flying on a plane, there's some government agency,

agent right down whether or not I fell asleep and was looking around erratically?

That's where I live my life, following a sleep I'm looking around erratically.

I'm taking a nap.

I'm grateful that you're being monitored.

I encourage it.

This is really quite a story about a secret monitoring a surveillance program by the

government and Missy Ryan Washington Post reporter who covers the Pentagon military issues,

rather a national security joins us now.

Hello Missy, how are you?

Great, thank you.

Oh, it's our pleasure to talk to you.

So tell us about this federal air marshal program.

So it came to light over the weekend that the TSA has been conducting a program since 2010

in which they select air travelers in the United States on the basis of sometimes their

travel records if they visited particular overseas countries or other based on the

basis of other factors to be monitored by federal air marshals during flights within the

United States.

So if somebody is selected for this quiet skies program, then what would happen is that

an air marshal would get on their next flight within the United States and observe them

as they go about their travel and have a questionnaire that they would fill out about

the person's behavior and the TSA says that this is something that they do in order to

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