Source: AP News via BreitBart.com
Remember all that talk about Republicans proudly proclaiming they are the party that will protect us from the evil terrorists, and that the Dems would be weak on terror? Ha ha, the joke is on us again.
With some well-crafted forged documents, undercover investigators easily slipped enough materials to make two small "dirty bombs" past U.S. Customs agents at U.S. entry points in Texas and Washington.
Undercover investigators slipped radioactive material -- enough to make two small "dirty bombs" -- across U.S. borders in Texas and Washington state in a test last year of security at American points of entry.
Radiation alarms at the unidentified sites detected the small amounts of cesium-137, a nuclear material used in industrial gauges. But U.S. customs agents permitted the investigators to enter the United States because they were tricked with counterfeit documents.
The Bush administration said Monday that within 45 days it will give U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents the tools they need to verify such documents in the future.
The Government Accountability Office's report, the subject of a Senate hearing Tuesday, said detection equipment used by U.S. customs agents to screen people, vehicles and cargo for radioactive substances appeared to work as designed.
But the investigation, carried out simultaneously at both border crossings in December 2005, also identified potential security holes terrorists might be able to exploit to sneak nuclear materials into the United States.
First the ports debacle and now this.
Wake up people, the Republican majority is not doing its job to keep the country safe and secure. While they talk a good game, it was too easy for government investigators to slip materials under the radar. How hard would it be for terrorists to do the same?
The Bush White House, moving at a snail's pace, gets all over this serious issue.
The Bush administration said Monday that within 45 days it will give U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents the tools they need to verify such documents in the future.
Within 45 days? You have to be freaking kidding me here. What the hell do we do in the mean time? They might as well put up a neon sign saying, "Smuggle drugs, people, and radioactive materials here!"
Do tell me again, our GOP overlords in Congress...how are you protecting us?
Tags: [dirty bombs], [the ports debacle was the first of many messes to come], [US Customs and Border Protection], [Bush administration], [Republicans screw up again], [attention amigos! 45 day window so you can smuggle whatever the hell you want because our government is inept!]
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