No matter what the outcome the commander of the aircraft must be allowed the ultimate decision as to who is carried and who is not. After all, it will be the commander who would have been hauled over the coals if anything had gone wrong.
One would like to think that the USSS could at least have produced correct paperwork for one of their armed officers. In aviation a crate of oranges doesn't travel if the paperwork is incorrect !!!!! If USSS officers are travelling armed, whether on or off duty, then they their admin should be sh@# hot, particularly after 9/11
[ 04 January 2002: Message edited by: Big Tudor ]</p>