ARE YOU PROTECTED AGAINST TERRORISTS

WHO IS PRESIDENT BUSH PROTECTING?

IT CERTAINLY IS NOT THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY

GET THE FACTS BEHIND THE NEWS

1)At present, six years after 9/11, 95% of the shipping containers entering the U.S. are not inspected. This information is from Ken Gabril Senior Research Scholar and Engineering Manager at the Maryland Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson ® Tx who has sponsored legislation to correct this situation reports that 11,000 containers enter the U.S. each year. This means that approximately 10,450 are not examined.

IF someone places a bundle of dynamite, radioactive material, poison gas, deadly germs, etc. in a shipping container, 95 times out 100 it would reach its destination in the U. S.

2) On Sept. 6, six years after 9/1, the national newspaper USA TODAY published a report by the Homeland Security Dept. Inspector General. The report “blasted” the Transportation Security Administration for air cargo security. Passenger airlines carry 7,500 tons of cargo daily in storage areas under the passenger cabins. The report said passenger planes are vulnerable to attack.

The report said the TSA has too few cargo inspectors, an ineffective database to track violations and vague regulations for screening cargo. Only a small % of airline cargo is physically inspected. Inspector General Skinner said the TSA system ”increases the opportunities (to put) explosives. incendiaries and other dangerous devices on passenger aircraft.” Further research reveals that Fed-Ex, UPS, and USPS parcels are not examined.

3) Airport checkpoints remain a weak link in the security chain more than six years after 9/11 according to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY. Two million airline passengers travel each day in the US. At O ‘Hare airport in Chicago 60% of the simulated explosives carried by agents of the Transportation Security Adm were undetected, in Los Angeles it was 75%. Other airports do better but overall there are large security gaps at airport checkpoints.

Checkpoint difficulties are the high volume of fliers, the small amount of time, 30 sec, at O’Hare, to examine the flier and his carry on luggage. the slow pace of in deploying costly new screening technologies to replace 1950-era x-ray machines, privacy concerns about gov’t gathering intelligence information on fliers, and high employment turnover in the screener ranks.

4) About 21,000 people who should not have been allowed to enter the US came thru the 326 legal air,land and sea entry points from Oct 1, 2005 to Sept.30, 2006, according to Jayson Ahern Custom and Border Protection Commissioner. This figure is based on a statistical estimate as we don’t know the exact number. 200.000 people were refused entry to the US.
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Robert Diogenes believes that fixing these gaping holes in our security system should have first priority. All the information gained thru illegal wiretapping and various intelligence methods will NOT DO US ANY GOOD IF TERRORISTS CAN EASILY ENTER OUR COUNTRY BY LAND, SEA, OR AIR.