This proves what a total lie the "terrorism" threat is:
Faults Seen at Agency That Patrols U.S. Borders By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
"Thousands of travelers who should have been barred from entering the country last year were allowed in by lax procedures of United States Customs and Border Protection officers, the Government Accountability Office reported yesterday.
“When C.B.P. does not apprehend a potentially dangerous person, this increases the potential that national security may be compromised,” said the office, an investigative arm of Congress.
Yeah, so they can put these stories out (with blogger comments):
US fears Hamas, Hizballah setting up shop in Mexico
"The Bovine Excrement Meter just spun wildly and imploded all over this article!
If this administration really believed this, would we have an absolutely porous southern border, where hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants cross into the US every year?
Or is this propaganda possibly aimed at setting the people of this country up for some future "staged event"?" -- Mike Rivero, What Really Happened
Right!
Persistent weaknesses reported in the inspection program included failures to stop vehicles or question pedestrians crossing the border, even after heightened alerts and stepped-up training.
Cause they know it is ALL BULLSHIT!! "Terror" attacks are INSIDE JOBS!!!!!
Mike Friel, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection in Washington, responded by saying, “In the post-9/11 environment there continue to be challenges to our overall border security efforts.”
After SIX YEARS of "terror" threats?!
But Mr. Friel added that there had been “significant progress in certain areas, and we need to continue implementing some of the initiatives currently in place.” He cited the new passport requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative as a step toward better border security.
The REAL PURPOSE!
Daily, he said, on average, “we refuse entry to 574 noncitizens and 63 criminal aliens.”
The accountability office said that it had provided a fuller version of the report to the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of Customs and Border Protection, and that it had agreed with recommendations to strengthen training and internal controls.
The publicly released version of the report put the number of people improperly admitted in 2006 at “several thousand” and said a more precise estimate was withheld for security reasons.
The report said that in 2006 customs and border officers turned away 200,000 travelers ineligible to enter the country and seized more than 600,000 pounds of illegal drugs and more than 40,000 fraudulent documents.
The National Treasury Employees Union, representing the bulk of the 17,600 customs and border agents, endorsed the findings yesterday as evidence of its longtime assertion that Customs and Border Protection “is understaffed and poorly managed.”
The agency, created in 2003, controls 326 air, sea and land ports of entry.
The accountability office said that in reviewing the agency’s own data and sending investigators to eight entry points, it found persistent weaknesses in procedures that “contribute to failed inspections.”
It cited instances of officers’ waving vehicles and pedestrians into the country without stopping them or even looking up from a computer screen. Officers did not interview passengers in back seats or board recreational vehicles to see who was inside.
Seven of the ports were so short-staffed that managers had to cancel training sessions to keep operations running, the report said. Some officers balked at searching for drugs because they had not been properly trained.
Officers exhausted from double shifts called in sick to avoid overtime duty, the report said, and poor morale had driven officers out of the agency.
But Americans don't want any jobs, right?
Two of the Congressional investigators who tested the inspection system at one land port of entry were simply asked by an officer at a desk if they were American citizens. They said “yes” and were passed through.
The Department of Homeland Security countered that under current regulations a person claiming citizenship does not have to present documents at a land port, only satisfy an officer that he or she is a citizen.
But the accountability office cited the episode as an example of how the agency had not complied with its own standards. “Asking a traveler one question about citizenship while seated at a desk about 10 feet away does not seem to be consistent with the more thorough inspections called for in C.B.P’s management guidance,” the report said."
"White House to Offer Own Plan on Product Safety" By STEPHEN LABATON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — The Bush administration on Tuesday will propose a significant expansion of the authority of the federal drug and consumer product safety agencies to inspect and certify imports, White House and other administration officials said Monday.
Propelled by a spate of food and product recalls, Congress is moving quickly to adopt even broader legislation that is strongly opposed by manufacturers and the administration.
The administration’s proposal significantly increases the chances that Congress will act this year, but whether the lawmakers produce something to Mr. Bush’s liking is another matter.
Sig Heil! Sig Heil!! Sig Heil!!!
A White House official said a major part of the plan would entail stationing inspectors in foreign countries to examine drugs, food and other potentially dangerous products before they were shipped to American shores. The official said that with $2 trillion in imports annually, inspections at the ports had become ineffective."
So the TERROR ATTACK can come from ANYWHERE, huh?
Which port city they gonna nuke?
