Hey, RePIGlicans, what didja do with the security money?
Harry Hope
For example, in 2004, the government spent nearly $30 million on
so-called puffer machines, explosives-testing devices that didn't
work.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9444129
Dec. 29, 2009
What Has Happened to the Billions of Dollars Spent on Aviation
Security?
ABC Investigates the Billions Meant to be Secured for Hi-Tech
Equipment to Track Terrorists
By DAN HARRIS
Nearly 10 years after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, questions
continue to be raised on security:
How should Americans feel about the tens of billions of taxpayer
dollars spent to beef up aviation security?
And what about all those hours we've spent waiting on lines, taking
off our shoes and surrendering our liquids and gels -- have they been
worth it?
After the Christmas near-miss, when officials say a 23-year-old
Nigerian man carrying explosives nearly succeeded in detonating
himself on board a trans-Atlantic flight, many experts say Americans
should be outraged.
Andrew Thomas from the Journal of Transportation Security says the
government should be very disappointed in its actions and that "we
need to hold these people accountable."
Many of the key recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to make the
country safer still haven't been implemented.
For example, we still don't have widespread, reliable technology to
check if passengers have explosives hidden in their underwear or
inside their body.
Transportation Safety Administration screeners still only check 50
percent of the cargo that passenger planes carry in their holds.
And the government still can't immediately check the names of all
passengers against a single terrorist watchlist, even though
technology expert Eddie Schwartz was able to cross-reference two lists
of wanted criminals for us in about a half hour.
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What were RePIGlicans doin' for 8 years?
Harry
bvallely
> For example, in 2004, the government spent nearly $30 million on
> so-called puffer machines, explosives-testing devices that didn't
> work.
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9444129
>
> Dec. 29, 2009
>
> What Has Happened to the Billions of Dollars Spent on Aviation
> Security?
>
> ABC Investigates the Billions Meant to be Secured for Hi-Tech
> Equipment to Track Terrorists
>
> By DAN HARRIS
>
> Nearly 10 years after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, questions
> continue to be raised on security:
>
> How should Americans feel about the tens of billions of taxpayer
> dollars spent to beef up aviation security?
> And what about all those hours we've spent waiting on lines, taking
> off our shoes and surrendering our liquids and gels -- have they been
> worth it?
> After the Christmas near-miss, when officials say a 23-year-old
> Nigerian man carrying explosives nearly succeeded in detonating
> himself on board a trans-Atlantic flight, many experts say Americans
> should be outraged.
The problem wasn't a failure in technology - it's a failure in the CIA
not bothering to place the terrorists name on the "No-Fly" list.
.
The technology worked just fine until Obama and his cronies took over.
John Q Public
You have a lawyer/ex uselesss gov. as head of agency more worried about BO's
PC policy than actual protection.
Remeber BO and the left have been marginilizing the threat fer years,
it comes up
and bites em in the ass and the best they can do is blame GWB's policies (Which
they have been happy to go along with except profiling which does
work), claim the
system worked/or didn't work within 2 days and then vow no stone will
be unturned
bringing anyone involved to justice!
Wanna bet we get this 1 fool in 1 show trial and little else!