Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Feds find holes in US security

MSNBC is reporting the Department of Homeland Security is about two years behind in getting the right equipment at US ports to screen for radiation.

Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota, said undercover GAO investigators were able to bring enough radioactive material into the U.S. to make two dirty bombs — penetrating both the northern and southern borders. Monitors detected the radiological material, but undercover agents produced fake papers and got the material in.