Ship Container Security Poor Post 9/11… We’ve Heard This Somewhere Before

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Ship Container Security Poor Post 9/11… We’ve Heard This Somewhere Before

Hat tip to BuzzFlash for pointing out that we have heard this some where before...

"Congressional investigators say US ship container security sucks post September 11. John Kerry talked about this during the campaign, the fact that containers on airlines and elsewhere were coming through unchecked, and nobody cared."

Congressional investigators on Wednesday said they have found serious shortcomings in post-Sept. 11 programs aimed at stopping weapons of mass destruction from arriving at U.S. seaports.

Following a 20-month investigation that took U.S. Senate and House of Representatives officials to shipping ports from Rotterdam to Singapore, officials found that only a tiny portion of the containers destined for U.S. ports were being inspected.

"Only one-third of one percent of all containers" were inspected at 36 foreign ports that participate in a Container Security Initiative that the United States launched in 2002, according to a congressional aide who briefed reporters.

“We shouldn't be letting ninety-five percent of our container ships come into our ports without ever being physically inspected.” John Kerry talked about this many times on the campaign trail last year and the right-wing attempted to debunk it (Google), but clearly GAO has found some issues with the Bush administration …

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