"I'd be embarrassed if I were you... Who does John Magaw work for? Did he just take a position in direct violation of Bush's wishes or does Bush have some control over what his cabinet officials say?" - Demidog
You are amazing. You clearly don't know what has been happening in America.
To wit: Bush FIRED Magaw and then signed the second pro-gun pilot-arming bill into law.
So to answer your question about who Magaw works for, the answer is: Not Bush.
Likewise, as I stated earlier, the BEST that you could do would be to show that the MEDIA, not Bush himself, claimed that Bush opposed arming pilots.
Magaw found that out the hard way, and now I've managed to get an additional chuckle from the whole thing (as clearly you don't know what it is that you are rambling about).
"Who does John Magaw work for?" - Demidog
Oh, that's just too rich!
To wit: Bush FIRED Magaw and then signed the second pro-gun pilot-arming bill into law. LOL...Could you be any more disengenuous? Magaw was not fired for misrepresenting Bush on the gun issue. He was fired because he wasn't making his deadlines.
John Magaw Fired
Washington, DC. The Bush administration fired John Magaw, head of the Transportation Security Administration today (18-Jul-2002) amid an escalating series of conflicts between the new agency and the airline industry reports The Wall Street Journal. In recent weeks, Magaw's agency has been under attack from airport directors who say they've been left out of decisions on how to meet a 31-Dec-2002 deadline for deploying bomb-detection machines at all commercial airports, and from airline execs unhappy about random screening of passengers.
You show me a quote where Bush tells any reporter that Magaw's position was in opposition to his. Hurry.