CNN breaking: Dirty bomb smuggling by US Undercover Investigators

[Gabi Hayes]

enough radioactive material was smuggled into US in a test by investigators, posing as employees of a fictitious company, using fake documents, last year.

how convenient

EDIT, thanks to cal04 for link

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/334269.html

Undercover investigators slipped a radioactive substance — enough, they say, to make two dirty bombs — across northern and southern U.S. borders last year in a test of security at American ports of entry.
Radiation detection equipment at the unidentified sites went off, but the investigators were permitted to enter the United States after using counterfeit documents to deceive customs agents.

A Government Accountability Office investigation, to be discussed at a Senate hearing Tuesday, said equipment used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to screen people, vehicles and cargo for radioactive substances appeared to work when operated correctly.

But the investigation, carried out between July and December 2005 by Congress' investigative arm, also identified potential security holes that terrorists seeking to covertly carry nuclear weapons into the United States might be able to exploit.

"This operation demonstrated that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is stuck in a pre-9/11 mind-set in a post-9/11 world and must modernize its procedures," Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Monday in a statement.

.....the dirty, stinking rat bastard, that is. (Coleman)

[cal04]

1. Wolf talking about it now

from the northern border. Lack of getting ficticious documents
Gao report

[MsKandice01]

2. Wait...the US Agents are doing the smuggling??

[Gabi Hayes]

4. it was an exercise....sorry. see edit header

wanted to get this up right away

CNN security analyst talking about the "ultimate nightmare", nuke material being sent over borders

well now

between this and the immigration story, that nasty old war in Iraq will be WAY old news....oh so pre911

[MsKandice01]

3. Wait...the US Agents are doing the smuggling??

[AndyA]

5. Bush and The Republicans are sure tough on terra, aren't they?

If the Feds can do it, so can the terraists.

Had enough?

[Gabi Hayes]

7. they said it was easier for them to get this across than it was to

bring prescription DRUGS!

[flobee1]

9. That tells me one thing

We all know where their priorities lie now!

[havocmom]

11. Prescription drugs bought elsewhere cost US companies $$

Of course they are more diligent looking for those!

[dipsydoodle]

6. So much for

Fatherland Security

[Gabi Hayes]

10. WATCH it, bub!

[dipsydoodle]

34. Good image

Thanks Gabi. I knew such thing existed but didn't know where to look.

[Flabbergasted]

8. Link?

[havocmom]

14. CNN is on TV first.

Their site may not have a breaking story up to link to yet.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. no thanks, I already have one

[Karenca]

12. OMG!

When you think you've heard everything........

Enough material to potentially build TWO dirty bombs.

This bastard administration......yeah, the y're the ones who ran on
'we'll save you from the terrorists'.

Why are we not impeaching them? We should have a coup.





edited for spelling

[cal04]

13. here's a link

Investigators find security lapses at U.S. ports of entry

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/334269.html

[Rainscents]

16. I feel real safe now!!!

:scared:

[cal04]

17. here's another link to MSNBC's story

Could terrorists smuggle dirty bombs into U.S.?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12038958/from/RSS/

[datadiva]

18. And their reasons for making this public now?

:eyes:

[Gabi Hayes]

20. see post number four

you know the answer, I bet

[LiberalAndProud]

19. Secure. I feel so secure.

These guys are really good at this national security thing. Same as they're really good at that spending-control thing. Yup. They are really really good at keeping their promises. No wonder they're the majority party. Awesome.totally awesome.

:shrug:

[Just Me]

21. Well, well, well. They never did give a damn about securing us.

It was all a facade, that "war on terror". After all, if we were in REAL DANGER, wouldn't we be investing MORE MONEY in securing our country rather than bombing the hell outta' other countries?

Good grief.

It's all bullshit. But, don't worry,...I'm sure the neocons will find a way to allow something really bad to happen, scaring the shit out of Americans into supporting the provocation of an unecessary world war.

:eyes:

[BeHereNow]

23. We always knew that- what is not being discussed it this:

Within the immigration bill is the guest worker program.
The guest worker program is their way of cataloguing
all the potential future cannon fodder, NOT making
the country safer or having a kindly heart towards
the huddled masses.
When immigrants sign on to the guest program
worker, they will also be signing on to
military duty eligibility.
Those are the jobs George has been talking
about as far as the jobs Americans don't want to
do...
BHN
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/99975.php

[Just Me]

30. Well, that makes sense in BushCO world: slave workers AND cannon fodder.

Makes perfect sense.

Yup. The absolute best means of human exploitation prolly ever accomplished.

I can't help myself. I hate these assholes. They MAKE me hate them. They are the scorch of the earth and,...I hope there is an all-consuming hell for them to serve out eternity.

I have to shower myself of these awful feelings.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. that's pretty much what the CNN expert on this said, re: money

he said he's a conservative, and didn't like big spending, but said, basically, if we're not going to spend money on this, the WTF ARE they going to spend it on?

[Steve A Play]

22. No big deal, why risk bringing stuff across the border

when everything you need can be found by any kid because it's already here?

What happened when a teenager tried a dangerous experiment in his back yard

Tale of the Radioactive Boy Scout.

FROM HARPER'S MAGAZINE BY KEN SILVERSTEIN



Golf Manor, a subdivision in Commerce Township, Mich., some 25 miles outside of Detroit, is the kind of place where nothing unusual is supposed to happen, where the only thing lurking around the corner is an ice-cream truck. But June 26, 1995, was not a typical day.

Ask Dottie Pease. Cruising down Pinto Drive, Pease saw half a dozen men crossing her neighbor's lawn. Three, in respirators and white moon suits, were dismantling her next-door neighbor's shed with electric saws, stuffing the pieces into large steel drums emblazoned with radioactive warning signs.

Huddled with a group of neighbors, Pease was nervous. "I was pretty disturbed," she recalls. Publicly, the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that day said there was nothing to fear. The truth is far more bizarre: the shed was dangerously irradiated and, according to the EPA, up to 40,000 residents of the area could be at risk.

The cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn. He had attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed following a Boy Scout merit-badge project.

<more>

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

The FBI shouldn't be wasting their time watching the Raging Grannies, Food not Bombs, and the Quakers looking for 'terrorists', they need to infiltrate the Boy Scouts before they build a bomb! :scared:

[Gabi Hayes]

25. haaaa.....thanks for the memory. I used to subscribe to Harpers then

I remember that story VERY well

unbelievable

quite a selfstarter, that kid

wonder what he's up to now

[Steve A Play]

29. So should the FBI!

:)

[Gabi Hayes]

33. you pretty funny, but are you monkey funny?

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. This story is so two weeks ago.

Great reporting, CNN. :eyes:

[ContraBass Black]

27. Terra!

Terra, terra, terra!

[Minnesota Libra]

28. That thing is my Senator and I HATE HIM - I HATE NEOCONS nt

[Gabi Hayes]

31. the buck tooth baaaaastard?

amen

[0007]

32. I hope Minnesota can get that prick out of office.