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threatening them with jail time. Infiscal 2006, ICE agents
arrested716 employers for violatingillegallabor laws - an inc r eas
e over2002, when 25 people were arrested.
hibits Ule disclosure oflnfonuationthat it detennines may revea!
asystemic vulnerability of the aviation system or aviation
facilities toattack, accordingto Transporta.tion
SecurityRegulations.
Bu t TSA's use of SSI has beenquestioned before. A February2004
report from the Congressional Research service repoltedconcerns
from airline industryrepresentatives that 881 was beingused to
mU7:lle debate over efIective security mea'mrcs. And tileGovernment
Account.'lbility OfGce in June 2005 said TSA did nothave rules
governing the lise ofSSI and did not have adequatecontrol,,' to
ensure ssr was beingdeiignated across the depaitmenL
MacLean sees a double standard in the way he was treatedand th e
rreedom senior Homeland Security officials haveto disclose
operational secrets.Homell1lld Security Seoretlll:yMichaelChcrtoff
tOld reporters inAugust, a(ler the \Il1raveling of aLondon-based
terrorist p lo t t obomb U.S.-bound flights, thatairn\arshals were
going to focus onsimilar fliglllS.
~ can't disclose t h a " t h ~ y ' r e tak-ingair marshals off
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