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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 797751" data-attributes="member: 12952">Napolitano ignored radioactive material smuggled across U.S. bordersUsing counterfeit documents and posing as employees of a company with a&nbsp; Nuclear Regulatory Commission license, [GAO] investigators successfully&nbsp; crossed the U.S. northern and southern borders with the type of&nbsp; radioactive materials that could be used to make a dirty bomb. – GAO&nbsp; Report to Congress.The Government Accountability Office on occasion conducts covert tests&nbsp; known as “red team operations,” meaning the GAO does not notify agencies&nbsp; in advance about the testing.“The government has conducted numerous vulnerability tests and they&nbsp; all appear to highlight the fact that our borders are porous not only to&nbsp; illegal aliens but also to terrorists, weapons of mass destruction and&nbsp; other contraband. Maybe Secretary [Janet] Napolitano [of the Homeland&nbsp; Security Department] should worry more about that than about guns being&nbsp; smuggled into Mexico,” said political strategist Mike Baker.GAO investigators identified numerous border security&nbsp; vulnerabilities, both at ports of entry and at unmanned and unmonitored&nbsp; land border locations between the ports of entry. In testing ports of&nbsp; entry, undercover investigators carried counterfeit drivers’ licenses,&nbsp; birth certificates, employee identification cards, and other documents,&nbsp; presented themselves at ports of entry and sought admittance to the&nbsp; United States dozens of times.They arrived in rental cars, on foot, by boat, and by airplane. They&nbsp; attempted to enter in four states on the northern border (Washington,&nbsp; New York, Michigan, and Idaho), three states on the southern border&nbsp; (California, Arizona, and Texas), and two other states requiring&nbsp; international air travel (Florida and Virginia).In nearly every case, government inspectors accepted oral assertions&nbsp; and counterfeit identification provided by GAO undercover investigators&nbsp; as proof of U.S. citizenship and allowed them to enter the country. In&nbsp; total, undercover investigators made 42 crossings with a 93 percent&nbsp; success rate. On several occasions, while entering by foot from Mexico&nbsp; and by boat from Canada, covert investigators were not even asked to&nbsp; show identification.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 797751, member: 12952"] [B]Napolitano ignored radioactive material smuggled across U.S. borders[/B] Using counterfeit documents and posing as employees of a company with a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license, [GAO] investigators successfully crossed the U.S. northern and southern borders with the type of radioactive materials that could be used to make a dirty bomb. – GAO Report to Congress. The Government Accountability Office on occasion conducts covert tests known as “red team operations,” meaning the GAO does not notify agencies in advance about the testing. “The government has conducted numerous vulnerability tests and they all appear to highlight the fact that our borders are porous not only to illegal aliens but also to terrorists, weapons of mass destruction and other contraband. Maybe Secretary [Janet] Napolitano [of the Homeland Security Department] should worry more about that than about guns being smuggled into Mexico,” said political strategist Mike Baker. GAO investigators identified numerous border security vulnerabilities, both at ports of entry and at unmanned and unmonitored land border locations between the ports of entry. In testing ports of entry, undercover investigators carried counterfeit drivers’ licenses, birth certificates, employee identification cards, and other documents, presented themselves at ports of entry and sought admittance to the United States dozens of times. They arrived in rental cars, on foot, by boat, and by airplane. They attempted to enter in four states on the northern border (Washington, New York, Michigan, and Idaho), three states on the southern border (California, Arizona, and Texas), and two other states requiring international air travel (Florida and Virginia). In nearly every case, government inspectors accepted oral assertions and counterfeit identification provided by GAO undercover investigators as proof of U.S. citizenship and allowed them to enter the country. In total, undercover investigators made 42 crossings with a 93 percent success rate. On several occasions, while entering by foot from Mexico and by boat from Canada, covert investigators were not even asked to show identification. [/QUOTE]

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