07/08/2009
Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
A report due out today will reveal that investigators testing security conditions at 10 federal sites were able to smuggle bomb components past guards every time they tried. The Government Accountability Office was behind the test, which exposed lax security at sites including the State Department, the Department of Justice and the Office of Homeland Security.
In each case, actual bomb parts were smuggled in and bombs were easily assembled on site.
Also uncovered, an incident during which a guard inadvertently allowed a baby to go through an X-ray machine. The guard was fired, but later sued—and won!—for proving a lack of training in handling the machine.
It's safe to say that the Federal Protective Service, charged with keeping the sites safe, is in the crosshairs over this report.
Posted 11:20 AM EST by Matthew Rettenmund in CNN, Washington DC | Permalink
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I work in one of the Fed buildings downtown. I can assure you the FPS and the rent-a-cop contractors are just about useless.
Posted by: shane | Jul 8, 2009 12:33:08 PM
Wow
Posted by: Mitch | Jul 8, 2009 1:05:47 PM
Gosh, Joe. What a charming comment.
Posted by: The Milkman | Jul 8, 2009 1:07:17 PM
Why is someone from Fred Phelps' family commenting on Towleroad under the pseudonym Joe?
Posted by: Hank | Jul 8, 2009 1:19:11 PM
I was gonna make some kind of joke about "but at least no one's getting bottled water through" but my heart isn't in it now.
Posted by: mcc | Jul 8, 2009 3:18:41 PM
The "protection" offered by the TSA and DHS were never meant to be real. It's simply an attempt to convince people that they're safer by inconveniencing them. As hollow as GWB's skull.
Posted by: KJ | Jul 8, 2009 9:50:01 PM