Apparently, the sniveling little twit was so unreasonably panicked that the air marshals on the plane were concerned about the effect her overreaction would have on the other passengers:

Undercover federal air marshals on board a June 29 Northwest airlines flight from Detroit to LAX identified themselves after a passenger, “overreacted,” to a group of middle-eastern men on board, federal officials and sources have told KFI NEWS.

The passenger, later identified as Annie Jacobsen, was in danger of panicking other passengers and creating a larger problem on the plane, according to a source close to the secretive federal protective service.

Jacobsen, a self-described freelance writer, has published two stories about her experience at womenswallstreet.com, a business advice web site designed for women.

“The lady was overreacting,” said the source. “A flight attendant was told to tell the passenger to calm down; that there were air marshals on the plane.”

She was so overcome with panic, so convinced that innocent people were terrorists, that she was a danger to the safety of the flight. Jacobsen’s terror and hysterical cowardice was much more of a danger than those musicians. Who, by the way, have been completely cleared:

Jacobsen and her husband had a number of conversations with the flight attendants and gestured towards the men several times, the source said.

“In concert with the flight crew, the decision was made to keep [the men] under surveillance since no terrorist or criminal acts were being perpetrated aboard the aircraft; they didn’t interfere with the flight crew,” Adams said.

The air marshals did, however, check the bathrooms after the middle-eastern men had spent time inside, Adams said.
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Federal agents later verified the musicians’ story.

“We followed up with the casino,” Adams said. A supervisor verified they were playing a concert. A second federal law enforcement source said the concert itself was monitored by an agent.

“We also went to the hotel, determined they had checked into the hotel,” Adams said. Each of the men were checked through a series of databases and watch-lists with negative results, he said.

The source said the air marshals on the flight were partially concerned Jacobsen’s actions could have been an effort by terrorists or attackers to create a disturbance on the plane to force the agents to identify themselves.

Air marshals’ only tactical advantage on a flight is their anonymity, the source said, and Jacobsen could have put the entire flight in danger.

So, it seems Jacobsen’s little racist based hysteria (and can anyone who has been following this story, who has seen Jacobsen and her right wing defenders insist that the men were on a dry run, or to insist that they were a danger days after the government has cleared them, or read the article above and notice that none of the flight crew was alarmed, think that her panic had anything to do with anything but race?) was more of a danger than the musicians. And if, by some miracle, they were terrorists, her hyperventilating, pee-in-her-pants reaction could very well have allowed the terrorists to identify the air marshals.

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