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Soon after the White House sent a note to FBI principal James Comey that he was getting canned, choppers climbed onto the caravan of the dismissed officer as he made his way through Los Angeles. With the O.J. Simpson-esque intelligence alarm ended with Comey going up the steps of a shimmering Gulfstream 550 long-range personal jet. Gulfstream's Gulfstream 550 long-range personal jets were the only ones to be able to get the message across.

When the giant deluxe plane appeared, many asked whether the top government officers could really make such a grand and ordinary trip, especially on a brief trip to California. However, FBI managers in particular have been heavily involved in the use of jet fighters in recent years.

In addition to the large army transport fleets of executives, which range from King Airs to the 757s, without taking into account the President's prestigious bridge mission's renowned 32A and 25A CAs and 25A VCs, the German administration has a huge stock of privately owned airplanes. Ministry of Justice, which owns the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Marshall Service, and the FBI, also has its own Army of Antenna Pockets consisting of small patrol airplanes, choppers, and much bigger airplanes.

In 2016, a Government Accounting Office study claimed that the federal government had distributed 924 planes among 11 authorities within its jurisdiction (owned or leased). DOJ owns 101 of these planes, of which 67 are fixed-wing planes and 26 are helidecks. In 2016, the costs of operating and maintaining DOJ planes amounted to $62.3 million, the reports said.

Omitted from this review are the contractually agreed and charters which are also used by many agents, but it gives a good insight into the number of fixed aeronautical activities that the DoJ has at its disposal. Meanwhile, German leaders - the most indebted of them - continue to use jet fighters with nominally supervised supervision.

Indeed, Congress actually went to buy more personal jetliners than the Department of Defense had requested in 2009. However, things would come to a crisis when savings policies were implemented against the German administration itself. Popular use of the DOJ leadership's personal aircraft, which was overboiled as a segregation, posed a threat to the employment of ordinary cabinet laborers, as well as those in U.S. criminal prosecution services.

Coupled with the hyper-political state the land is in today, some in the Congress wanted responses to how these high-value fortunes are being used by the FBI director and attorney general. Senator Charles Grassley, then the highest ranked member of the Senate's Justice Committee, said in 2013 that because of the high costs of using these planes, the DOJ head's honeymoons should not always use the large 550s or reduce overall travelling expenses, he said:

"Allegedly these luxurious planes were needed to fight terrorism, but it turns out they were used almost two-thirds of the times for business jetset trips.... No one denies that the Attorney General and FBI Director General should have safe communication but there is, for example, no justification why they cannot take a cheaper means of transport or restrict their own individual itinerary.

"In the 2007-2011 financial years, three persons serving as Attorneys General (AG) and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made up 95 per cent (659 out of 697 flights) of all DOJ Department of Justice (DOJ) nonmission DOJ flight executives at a combined expense of $11.4 million.

In particular, the AG and FBI directors together accounted for 74 per cent (490 out of 659) of all their air travel for commercial matters such as conferencing, meeting and on-site visitation, 24 per cent (158 out of 659) for individual matters and 2 per cent (11 out of 659) for a mix of commercial and individual matters.

Each AG and FBI Director is an "obligatory traveler" who is obligated by law to use federal jets for all of his or her travels, as well as for safety, communication, security, and/or recreational purposes. According to DOJ officers, while the AG has always been obliged to use planes for all kinds of trips, the FBI Director had until 2011 the power to use the services of a merchant airline for his own trip.

The DOJ officers tell us this accounts for the greater use of DOJ planes by the AG for personnel purposes than the FBI Director. Based on DOJ and FBI verified air traffic information, all DOJ and FBI AG and FBI Director reimbursed their individual journeys in accordance with government regulations. FBI also performs air transportation from a concealed area to Ronald Reagan National Airport to location shape for the AG's and FBI Director's transportation.

Specifically, $1.5 million of the $11.4 million was used by 659 AG and the FBI Director to operate planes from this entity to Ronald Reagan National Airport from 2007 to 2011 before these officers were transported to their final destination. The FBI says these positionings are necessary because, among other things, the FBI's base is an uncovered site, and sometimes the FBI will initiate sensible flying from that site.

" For DOJ messing and aviation, the two DOJ 550s are usually the plane of your choosing. Appropriately, the allegedly spontaneous date between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton at Phoenix Skyharbor Airport at the climax of the Hillary Clinton e-mail affair took place in one of these planes.

However, it seems that the division is now also relying on the services of individual suppliers to meet its business trip needs.

It' kinda what the Los Angeles plane would have done for Director Comey. "Tenax uses G550 type platform and provides long-range air commands and controls to conduct missions at the highest U.S. government level. This seems to be largely related to the G550's charters work on DOJ's order.

Tenax's expertise encompasses the provision of airborne intelligentsia for our clients in governments such as Regardless, it's quite clear that Tenax Aerospace, which among other things has the former Central Intelligence Agency General Michael Hayden Principal as its retirement General Manager and high-ranking defence officers on its Bureau, has a particular connection with the DOJ when you trust them to deliver expert transportation in purpose-built Gulfstream G550s to the most capable Justice Department Actors.

It' s difficult to say that the FBI or DOJ chief should not have direct contact with a personal jet, but using only the high-end version of the 550 for almost all missions, regardless of length, has been a controversial topic in the past. While Eric Holder's travels aboard DOJ's Gulfstreams attracted much interest, the imbalance between the operational needs and the planes used was also a problem.

However, they seem to be used for every range of DOJ chief honcho travels, as well as local travels to the east half of the USA. Smaller airplanes could have provided the same comfort and safety, but at much lower running costs. GAO said that between 2007 and 2011 the FBI's Citation X was used by both the Attorney General and the FBI's Chief of Staff, but only for 25 per cent of their trip.

Even though the FBI and DOJ leaders also use these planes for face-to-face travel, they have to give money back to the governments by order. Rather than foot their share of the thousand of dollar it costs to run a privately owned plane per lesson, they foot the bill in a bus price for themselves and non-essential staff, such as boyfriends and families, who travel with them.

OMB Circular A-126 stipulates, as mentioned above, that the OMB will reimburse the OMB for every full bus journey between each city. The amount of this refund, or an equal business tariff, is usually lower than the costs of running a federal jet. Thus, for example, a face-to-face visit by the Attorney General to New York in November 2010 with the FBI's Gulfstream V had an estimate airfare of $15,894, but the refund at the same business rate was $420.80.

FBI air travel information showed that the FBI Director had made a combined 10 journeys aboard FBI airplanes to be refunded in the 2007 to 2011 financial years and refunded the corresponding gross ticket price for those journeys totalling $4,556 in corresponding gross expenses, while 88 of the Prosecutor General's journeys in the same financial year needed a refund and refunded the corresponding gross ticket price for those journeys totalling $46,982.

Indeed, it may be the best way to entrust all these agents with the insensitive missions and business trips. Squeezing high-priced fleet of personal jets out of Uncle Sam's accounts and purchasing only the broadcasting time needed by the merchant sector would allow for a much more agile and adaptable operating mode.

This would also allow agents to better customize the airplane for each individual flight, which would save a great deal of time. In particular, it would probably make the audit of the use of planes simpler and more open, so that the use of state-owned corporate aeroplanes would be less contentious.

Let's take the DOJ's unit dimension - for example, a G550 is not required to fly from Washington DC to Cincinnati, Ohio. Should the goverment present a comprehensive changeover scheme to chart for this type of work, efficiencies could soar. Thus, established chart ing operations would help to reduce hourly costs and improve levels of servicing and scheduling for their governments' clients.

The German authorities could use certified subcontractors such as Tenax Aerospace for very wide-ranging tasks and for certain civil servants, with planes equipped with safer communication and stricter safety precautions so that all agent activities can be carried out in the skies. Once again, however, it seems more sensible to limit them to longer intracontinental journeys than to demand them for longer journeys within the lower 48 states.

Essentially, the federal government should consider how to get out of the airline's export market by outsourcing as much as possible. Once again, it is not about the family of DoD planes offering similar capability, among them tens of C-20 and C-37 Gulfstream planes. The majority of these aircrafts could be substituted by charter planes.

Transports to and from areas of conflict could also be outsourced, with particular demands being placed on the aeroplanes used for these tasks, such as equipping them with defence-measures. Instead, the DoD must accommodate, service, make available, and ultimately substitute a complete typelist of the various airplanes that perform these flight operations internally.

Both the German federation and the army should consider such a plan. Dollar savings could be used by governments to finance needed programmes and close capacity shortfalls, and the Department of Defense could use these resources to improve its capacity for warfare. Though President Trump has made many declarations about drastic cuts in public expenditure, especially for careless things, the President himself is the largest single "user" of state air bridges.

From his own air force of 757s, a Citation B, and a S-76 helicopter team, the president's own flying squadron, the president's number 45, has not pushed back his week-long journeys to his resort, a fact that has become the center of popular debate and contempt by some in Congress. The White House is unlikely to cut the wing of other civil servants for tax reasons.

Considering all this, it's almost certain that the next FBI director will be enjoying the pleasure of jetting around in a $55 million high-flying deluxe plane, just like its forerunner, wherever it goes.