CounterTerror Officials Claim AlQ to Launch Bio Attack from Mexico but not long afterwards: Bomb Materials Smuggled into Fed Bldgs
Federal investigators had no trouble smuggling bomb-making materials past ill-trained and poorly supervised guards at federal buildings, senators were told at a hearing Wednesday.
"This is the broadest indictment of a federal agency I have ever heard," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the performance of the Federal Protective Service, the office responsible for the safety of some 9,000 federal facilities. "This is really serious stuff."
The committee, chaired by Lieberman, heard how Government Accountability Office investigators on 10 occasions carried the components for an improvised explosive device through checkpoints monitored by FPS guards. In all 10 cases the bomb-making materials went undetected.
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DHS Issues Warnings on Sports Arenas
ABC News
March 4, 2008
As the spring sports season moves into high gear, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI today issued an assessment, called "Potential Threats to Popular Sports and Entertainment Venues," that said arenas and stadiums are attractive "potential targets during events."
The assessment repeatedly noted that the FBI and DHS have no "information on any credible or specific current terrorism plots to attack stadiums or arenas in the United States."
The report, however, said "operational planning and surveillance against sporting facilities are often difficult to detect," and college and professional basketball playoffs, the stock car racing season, hockey playoffs and horse racing's Triple Crown are among the events that "regularly bring tens of thousands of fansinto large open-access facilities."
Prepared at the request of the private sector with input from federal agencies, the report is intended to provide "decision makers with the broad, analytically-based threat information necessary to inform investment priorities and program design."
So DHS admits there is absolutely no credible evidence but states it is an attractive venue and warn us because "surveillance against sporting facilities are often difficult to detect".
papers, please.
We are now forbidden by Federal regulations from leaving or entering the USA, anywhere, by any means by air, by sea, or by land, to or from any other country or international waters or airspace unless the government chooses to issue us a passport, passport card, or "enhanced" drivers license (any of which "travel documents" are now issued only with RFID transponder chips), or unless the Department of Homeland Security chooses to to exercise its standardless "discretion" to decide in secret, with no way for us to know who is making the decision or on what basis to issue a (one-time case-by-case) "waiver" of the new travel document requirements.