'dirty bomb' materials get past US border checkpoints.

The utter incompetence of the administration is shown once more to the public. Sooner or later even the slow ones will be alarmed.
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March 29, 2006 at 12:15 p.m.

GAO investigators get 'dirty bomb' materials past US border checkpoints.
Enough material to 'make two bombs' gets through customs in Texas and Washington State.
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In December 2005, small undercover teams of investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) were able to carry small amounts of cesium-137, a radioactive material used for a variety of medical and industrial purposes, in the trunks of their rental cars past border checkpoints in the states of Washington and Texas. The Washington Post reports that the radioactive materials did set off alarms, but that the GAO agents were able to use phony documents to persuade US border guards and US Customs officers to let them pass into the US.
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GAO officials revealed their successful smuggling attempts at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
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"These are documents my 20-year-old son could easily develop with a simple Internet search," said Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), who chaired the hearing into covert nuclear threats before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee yesterday. "It is a problem when it is tougher to buy cold medicine than it is to acquire enough material to construct a dirty bomb."
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