This came to light in a Wall St Journal piece last month complaining about Dept of Justice officials taking joy rides in FBI aircraft. Apparently the FBI operates a fleet of executive jets for unspecified purposes.
Far as I am concerned, FBI agents ought to fly commercial, just like the rest of us. And put up with taking off their shoes, nudity scanners, and groping by TSA agents. If we citizens have to put up with this crap, so should they. After all, they work for us.
You can fly anywhere in the country for a few hundred bucks. Whereas a 10 seat executive jet costs $25 million to buy, and hundreds of dollars an hour to operate. We could fly the agents first class for less than that.
This is small change compared with farm bills and tranportation bills. I don't have real numbers, but if the FBI had a fleet of 10 aircraft, and flew each one 40 hours a week, at $200 an hour, we have $4.16 million a year for operating costs. Small change, but every little bit hurts.
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