"Cargo screening deadline challenged" by Associated Press | February 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers yesterday that the agency cannot meet its 2012 deadline for screening all cargo coming into the United States for radiological and nuclear materials....
And THAT is what is REALLY IMPORTANT -- $$$$!!!! Of course, $$$$ shouldn't matter when it is OUR SAFETY at stake, right?
Among the major obstacles to meeting the deadline is deploying trained US officials to more than 700 foreign ports to operate scanning equipment.... --more--"
I really don't want to hear excuses when (booga-booga) the TERRORISTS are COMING TO GET US!!!! They've had EIGHT FUCKING YEARS!! They can CLIMB UP my e-mail and phone call ass though, right?