I want you to tell your story and how you retaliated against because that has been a problem that i have seen repeatedly in my four years of people who have the courage to come forward, tell stories that have to be told, and then they are retaliated against, which has a Chilling Effect on those individuals that we do need to come forward. Please take this opportunity to tell your story. Mr. Maclean in july 2003, it accidentally fell on my lap. After a lot of problems with us preboarding before passengers, having to wear somewhat of a uniform to get on every flight, we were brought in for an unprecedented emergency suicidal, al qaeda terrorist hijack emergency briefing. We were all told that in any moment we were going to be under attack and the flight deck was going to be breached and those aircraft were going to be flown into east coast u. S. Targets and european capitals. Just two days afterward, all air marshals got an unsecured text message sent to their unsecured phone instead of their encrypted smartphones a message that there is we want everyone to avoid late cancellation fee, therefore we need to have everyone cancel their hotel rooms indefinitely. Later on, the gao and Inspector General discovered that that was going to be the plan for the next, until the new fiscal year. So for 60 days or longer, any aircraft that was going to fly four hours or longer was not going to have an air marshal team on them. So i initially first of all we thought it was sort