Dan Quayle, quail are birds.



"Denny" wrote in message
oups.com...
| They probably cleared customs in Bangor.
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|
| Bob, this interested me enough to spend 45 minutes on the
phone, with 7
| different customs offices, finally ending up with a Mr.
name withheld
| by me for reasons below who explained the procedure...
| Federal agencies reentering the country on official
business,
| especially with prisoners, normally have one or more of
those federal
| personnel being also a customs agent with the authority to
interview
| and clear people in and out of the country... So
Entwhistle would have
| been interviewed and cleared into the country while in the
air... Same
| for all persons aboard the aircraft... The plane hits the
ground, the
| prisoner is hustled to the car, and everyone scatters
before the
| prisoner can meet his just desserts...
|
| I then asked about U.S. war ships, etc., entering and
leaving the
| country... Same deal, some officers aboard a military ship
have customs
| agent authority and all the paperwork is completed aboard
the vessel
| prior to exit or entry...
|
| SCOOP for RAP members only:
| He also mentioned that the planes moving prisoners to and
from
| Guantanamo have a federal agent on board with customs
authority who
| clears them in and out of the country without going
through the customs
| gates...
| I strongly doubt he intended that for the 6 o'clock news,
so I have
| chosen to redact his name above... But, it's an
interesting tidbit...
|
| Foaming at the mouth media mongors need not call me as I
won't discuss
| it...
|
| BTW, there is a customs and border agent on board Air
Force One and he
| interviews and clears everyone, including the President,
in and out of
| the country... At which point I regaled him with the
story reported
| here on rec.aviation of Vice President Dan Quail having
to remove his
| shoes and be patted down at the airport... He laughed,
said he both
| knows and likes Mr. Quail, but if he were the agent, 'it
would have
| been down to his skivvies!'
|
| Famous, new saying, copyright to me:
| "There is nothing more powerful than a little authority."
|
| Remember that when you are dealing with the TSA agent at
the airport,
| who was a medicaid momma before she was given 3 weeks of
classroom
| training, a badge and the power to destroy your life......
|
| denny
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