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To: lurqer who wrote (27432)	9/11/2003 10:01:33 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

For a second year, U.S. government screeners have failed to detect a shipment of depleted uranium in a container sent by ABCNEWS from overseas as part of a test of security at American ports. and "If they can't detect that, then they can't detect the real thing," explained Tom Cochran, a nuclear physicist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which lent the material to ABCNEWS for the project. Cochran said the highly enriched uranium used for nuclear weapons would, with slightly thicker shielding, give off a signature similar to depleted uranium in the screening devices currently being used by homeland security officials at American ports. When informed of this you might think the Dept. of Homeland Security would thank ABC for pointing out a flaw. You might think that, but you would be wrong. Instead The ABCNEWS test was criticized by officials at the Department of Homeland Security, who assigned agents in at least four cities to investigate ABC personnel and news sources involved. "I think you're a news reporter that is trying to carry out a hoax on our inspectors," Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson told Brian Ross, ABCNEWS' chief investigative correspondent, for a report to be broadcast Thursday on World News Tonight and PrimeTime Thursday. from abcnews.go.com The appalling state of Homeland Security could let one make the case that it is deliberate. Deliberate to encourage an attack. Now who would benefit from the resulting fear and anger? JMO lurqer