Agents with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), managed to successfully smuggle radioactive material in to the United States from both the Mexican and Canadian borders. This provides further evidence that border security in the US is a joke to say the least. While legislators in Congress distract themselves and the electorate with time consuming debates on the status of illegals in this country, not a single thing is done about the problem of lax security in our ports and along our northern and southern border.
Perhaps what is most troubling about this GAO operation is the fact that radiation alarms were sounded as the material was smuggled across the border but the operatives were waved through nonetheless…what good is our security if a fast talking false document presenting operative can move at will across the border with a potentially deadly cargo? What is equally disturbing and further proof that the hoopla over immigration is misdirected is the fact that agents easily penetrated the US-Canadian border just as they did with the US-Mexican border.
This investigation did not address port security, though there is no doubt that had they tried, the agents would have been equally successful. Sadly, the US does an even poorer job of screening for radiation at our many ports. Those cargo containers that are checked represent only a small portion of all the containers that enter the US every year. It has been nearly 5 years since the Sept 11th attacks and the government continues to play fast and loose with our national security.
Once again the politics of distraction proves that that which is right and that which is popular often conflict…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4852410.stm
