Federal Investigators Able to Smuggle Bombs Past Security at Federal Buildings

Sheesh!  And Mrs. Bulldog couldn’t even get a pocket knife through our local Social Security office…

By the way, our sources are telling us that one of the buildings in which a bomb was smuggled through a security checkpoint was none other than the Department of Homeland Security!

Feeling any safer, now?

Report: Probe found weaknesses in federal security

By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press Writer – OC Register

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators had no trouble smuggling bomb-making materials past ill-trained and poorly supervised guards at federal buildings, senators were told at a hearing Wednesday.

“This is the broadest indictment of a federal agency I have ever heard,” Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the performance of the Federal Protective Service, the office responsible for the safety of some 9,000 federal facilities. “This is really serious stuff.”

The committee, chaired by Lieberman, heard how Government Accountability Office investigators on 10 occasions carried the components for an improvised explosive device through checkpoints monitored by FPS guards. In all 10 cases the bomb-making materials went undetected.

Mark Goldstein, the GAO’s director for physical infrastructure issues, said the investigators proceeded to assemble the material – made up of a liquid explosive and a low-yield detonator – in restrooms and walked freely around the facilities with the IED in a briefcase.

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Lieberman said the committee had originally planned to go public with the findings after the GAO issues a second report later this summer, but the conclusions “were so disturbing that we decided to air them immediately to accelerate the critical work of turning the FPS around.” He said he planned to introduce legislation responding to the service’s shortcomings.

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