Dirty Bombs Smuggled into the US?

The story below is very disturbing. Government Accountability Office (GAO) officials were able to easily penetrate our borders with false identification. Not only did they conclude that terrorists could pass through relatively easily, they also concluded that radioactive material could be smuggled across the Canadian-US border in multiple places!

By de Andréa

San Francisco Examiner

Radioactive material was brought into the U.S. by covert agents "In three states, the proximity of the road to the border allowed investigators to cross undetected, successfully simulating the cross-border movement of radioactive materials or other contraband into the United States from Canada." – Said the ‘Covert Operations Report’

In the past, officials from the Government Accountability Office testified before members of the US. Congress on three separate occasions in order to describe security vulnerabilities that terrorists could exploit to enter the country. Yet, even with reports of border security deficiencies, President Barack Obama cut the number of Border Patrol agents. Does he want another attack against the US? Read the article and then decide.

According to a report obtained by the Terrorism Committee of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, the GAO's first two testimonies focused on covert testing at ports of entry -- the air, sea, and land locations where international travelers can legally enter the United States.

In its third testimony, the GAO focused on limited security assessments of unmanned and unmonitored border areas between land ports of entry.

GAO officials were asked to summarize the results of covert testing and assessment work for these three testimonies. This report discusses the results of testing at land, sea, and air ports of entry; however, the majority of GAO's work was focused on land ports of entry. The unmanned and unmonitored border areas GAO assessed were defined as locations where the government does not maintain a manned presence 24 hours per day or where there was no apparent monitoring equipment in place.

GAO investigators identified numerous border security vulnerabilities, both at ports of entry and at unmanned and unmonitored land border locations between the ports of entry. In testing ports of entry, undercover investigators carried counterfeit drivers' licenses, birth certificates, employee identification cards, and other documents, presented themselves at ports of entry and sought admittance to the United States dozens of times.

They arrived in rental cars, on foot, by boat, and by airplane. They attempted to enter in four states on the northern border (Washington, New York, Michigan, and Idaho), three states on the southern border (California, Arizona, and Texas), and two other states requiring international air travel (Florida and Virginia).

In nearly every case, government inspectors accepted oral assertions and counterfeit identification provided by GAO undercover investigators as proof of U.S. citizenship and allowed them to enter the country. In total, undercover investigators made 42 crossings with a 93 percent success rate. On several occasions, while entering by foot from Mexico and by boat from Canada, covert investigators were not even asked to show identification.

For example, at one border crossing in Texas, an undercover investigator attempted to show a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer his counterfeit driver's license, but the officer said, "That's fine, you can go" without looking at it.

As a result of these tests, GAO concluded that terrorists could use counterfeit identification to pass through most of the tested ports of entry with little chance of being detected.

In its most recent work, GAO shifted its focus from ports of entry and primarily performed limited security assessments of unmanned and unmonitored areas between ports of entry. The names of the states GAO visited for this limited security assessment have been withheld at the request of Customs and Border Protection officials.

In four states along the U.S.-Canada border, GAO covert investigators found state roads that were very close to the border that CBP did not appear to monitor. In three states, the proximity of the road to the border allowed investigators to cross undetected, successfully simulating the cross-border movement of radioactive materials or other contraband into the United States from Canada.

For example, in one apparently unmanned, unmonitored area on the northern border, the U.S. Border Patrol was alerted to GAO's activities through the tip of an alert citizen. However, the responding U.S. Border Patrol agents were not able to locate the investigators and their simulated contraband.

Also on the northern border, GAO investigators located several ports of entry in one state that had posted daytime hours and were unmanned overnight. Investigators observed that surveillance equipment was in operation, but that the only preventive measure to stop an individual from crossing the border into the United States was a barrier across the road that could be driven around.

GAO officials also identified potential security vulnerabilities on federally managed lands adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border. GAO concluded that CBP faces significant challenges on the northern border, and that a determined cross-border violator would likely be able to bring radioactive materials or other contraband undetected into the United States by crossing the U.S.-Canada border at any of the assessed locations.

The unanswered question of course is… could terrorists get radio active material into Canada? It has already been determined by US Customs Department that R.A.M. could be smuggled into Mexico. When pressed for an answer from the GAO they admitted that yes, Radio Active Material could be smuggled into Canada, if by no other way, then through the northern territories.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Awhile back I wrote an article about how WMD and or a dirty bombs could be smuggled through the tunnels between Mexico and the US. Many of these tunnels are believed to still exist. Now we know that the northern border and even Florida and Virginia are vulnerable. I other words, Americas borders are like a sieve.

All this information is available to Obama. And yet nothing is done to protect our borders, on the contrary Obama knows this vulnerability, and still has reduced the protection of our borders at a time when we are at war wit Islam. Oh! I forgot he says that we are not at war with Islam. I feel better already!

At the beginning of this article, I asked; could this Muslim president be welcoming another attack on the US by Muslim terrorists? Oh! You don’t believe that Barrack Hussein Obammah is a Muslim sleeper terrorist at a time that we are at war with Islamic terrorists. Well then you really need to watch this video and listen to him in his own words tell you “this is no longer a Christian country this is a Muslim country” and he is a Muslim, and he believes the “Holy Quran” and the Muslim ideology.

After watching the video, then ask yourself the question, is Obama purposely making this country vulnerable to terrorists attack? And could that purpose be to advance the cause and agenda of Obama’s Nation of Islam?

Having an admitted Muslim as President at a time that ‘we are at war with Islam’ (denied by Obama) is tantamount to having an admitted Nazi as President at a time that we were at war with Nazi Germany (and have him deny that we were at war with Germany) 1943, I think it was… I hope you can see the parallel.

Yes, you are right… it is insane…

de Andréa