Report: Security on U.S.-Canada border fails terror test

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: CNN.com

Government investigators were able to cross from Canada into the United States carrying a duffle bag with contents that looked like radioactive material and never encountered a law enforcement official, according to a report released Thursday by investigators from the Government Accountability Office.

In one of those instances, the GAO said, the Customs and Border Protection agency reported an alert citizen notified authorities of the suspicious activity of the undercover investigators and described their vehicle.

However, the report said the Border Patrol was not able to locate the rental vehicle.

As of May, the U.S. government had 972 Border Patrol agents on the northern border but almost 12,000 on the southern one. The United States and Canada share more than 5,000 miles of border, while the U.S. and Mexico share 1,900 miles.






Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/27/border.security/index.html

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The article notes this is the second report in 2 days about how vulnerable the US is to 'terrorist' attacks. Yesterday's being the report on cyber attacks.

We just aren't showing enough FEAR.

[saigon68]

1. Why the Hell do we need the Berlin Wall on the Canadian Border?

Idiots and fear mongers.

How about a missile defense to kill men from Mars too

Anyone who wants to cause trouble can without the aformentioned Berlin Wall

This bullshit is only designed to Strike Fear in my 91 year old mother

[Andy Canuck]

2. Oh god...

honestly we have no mullahs or even a President running our country. We do still have the Queen as our head of state, but she is a little old lady, who lives far, far away. Please don't attack us!

[TrogL]

3. Blame Canada

You know you want to.

Uranium is mined (IIRC) in Canada. There's plenty of nuclear reactors. We have an undefended border to the Arctic (which we either claim belongs to Canada or is international territory, depending on whom you ask) and plenty of coastline.

Hence it makes perfect sense that we should be defending our border southwards to prevent people from bringing fisionable material in to the United States. Right?

US Customs does what again? :wtf: