Investigators smuggle live bomb components into federal building — in 27 seconds
Published: July 8, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
A Government Accountability Office investigator smuggled live bomb components into a federal building in just 27 seconds, then assembled a bomb in a restroom and ventured throughout the building without being detected, a leaked tape revealed Wednesday.
In addition, congressional investigators were able to penetrate every single federal building they probed without any difficulty — 10 in all.
A shocked Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) went off on the news in an article Wednesday by ABC News.
“It’s stunning. It’s shocking,” Lieberman quipped. “It just says that basically some people have forgotten the lessons of 9/11.”
A division of the Homeland Security Department is supposed to protect some 9,000 federal buildings across the United States. Fifteen thousand of their employees are private contractors, the network said.
The Federal Protective Service, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for securing more than 9,000 federal buildings and, among other employees, utilizes 15,000 contract security guards.
“The GAO has been investigating the service since 2007 for a wide range of reported problems, and says it found serious vulnerabilities during visits to the 10 buildings,” the network noted. “ABC News obtained videos and images from the GAO investigation. Investigators are slated to publish their latest findings in a report later this summer, but Lieberman’s staff said he found the information compiled so troubling that he scheduled a hearing for today.”
“Just think about it. In this case, in this GAO test, ten different federal buildings in different cities in the country were all compromised,” Lieberman is quoted as saying in the report. “If a terrorist group just did that in two or three federal buildings, it would not only really hurt some people; it would create a real crisis of confidence here in the United States about our homeland security.”
Homeland Security released a tepid statement to the network’s reporters, saying the department “is committed to providing government facilities and employees with a first class security force. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is charged with that critical mission and DHS takes the concerns raised in the forthcoming GAO report very seriously.”
More details on the bomb tests are available here.
This video is from ABC’s Good Morning America, broadcast July 8, 2009.
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-John Byrne
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The ‘Homeland’ Gestapo joke
Reminds AIPAC Lieberman of Bldg 7
WTC7 = WTF
Remember New Orleans liberals. They will not protect you, EVER! This is a DHS scare tactic. Their budget is being sliced and diced. Politico had that story yesterday and now, lo and behold, we are not safe!!
Guess what? The Border is not secure 8 years after the fake ass terrorist attack too.
One wonders if the heezy land security happy daze will be lost in the fog of warsters?
Does Lieberman have stock or other interests in a competing private security firm? Congress only takes action on things so swiftly when there’s money in it for them or their business ties.
Maybe if we didn’t outsource and contract everything to outside firms, there might be some accountability.
He is one step from bringing in the nazi mossad.
WELL.See there you wacky Libaurrrrls..
Cheney was absolutely right!!
This calls for action NOW.
#1, I demand another TAX CUT FOR THE RICH!!
#2, More MONEY for Israel!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EVERYBODY!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why, this is SHOCKING! SHOCKING, I tell you!!
Private security firms in THIS country failed to do what the government pays them for?!?!?!
They’ll never get another contract HERE, will they?
Oh, wait. They’ll get more, now, won’t they?
Oh great!
Like it isn’t already a pain in the ass going to court or anything else.
Why should a federal building get protection that all the civilian buildings don’t?
You can spot third world countries by how much their ‘government’ must insulate itself from those ’served’.
DHS is run by bushco appointees. It’s pretty damn naive to expect any kind of competence from them.
Hmmm… bombs in buildings that nobody likes. Evacuate in advance, get rid of buildings - save taxpayer money
Just kidding of course, no bombs = good bombs…
Notorious Kelly - great point!
Private contractors are bad ideas - they normally don’t pay anyone well, that’s why there are only 8 out of 88 of us left from my dept in the WTC when the planes hit - the TSA hires these people (in example to this article) doesn’t pay them crap, so they don’t care. Am I going to get stabbed/shot/blown up for $8/hr? - hell no - right this way to your seat sir and feel free to stash your bazooka under your seat or overhead bin.
Lie-berman is the Chairman of the Homeland Security committe which oversee this shit… and he’s shocked. Fire his ass now! He probably knew all about this, did nothing on purpose and is shocked that someone from GAO would go out and expose this.
In unrelated (and unreported) news, that someone will be fired.
“It’s stunning. It’s shocking,” Lieberman quipped. “It just says that basically some people have forgotten the lessons of 9/11.”
That’s not what “it” is saying. What “it” is saying is all these commissions, committees and such can’t do their jobs because these very same committees and commissions have got better things to do than their jobs.
And that “better thing” is spending all their time with with lobbyists.
“It’s stunning. It’s shocking,” Lieberman quipped. “It just says that basically some people have forgotten the lessons of 9/11.” - 9/11 wasn’t a ‘lesson’, it was a terrorist attack.
Who would those ’some people’ be Joe? Are we to believe Joe has never been to a Federal Building or that smuggling bombs into 10 of them is a sign that ’some people’ have dropped the ball? Bullshit, it’s all bullshit. Then again, if America is just going to stand by and let all of it happen, maybe this is what America deserves for being such a moron.
There hasn’t been an attack since 9/11 and I think it’s safe to say that the reason we haven’t been attacked has little to do with the massive and pointless security aparratus installed by degenerate fuckwads like Joe Lieberman and more to do with the fact that there’s not a scary world of terrorists and dragons out their trying to kill us every day.
Thank god for our Oligarchs though, where would we be without Bush’s & Clinton’s and Lieberman and McCain and Reid and Pelosi and Obama and the rest of the war gang?
The reason we have not been attacked is that we have paid our protection money and ransom notes. God was never in the deal nor was the heavenly host or the silent majority whom you neglected to mention. The real criminals will be crossing the Styx in your front yard some day soon. You can have your way with them then; after all what else does the Devil have to do but wait?
two words: burn notice
Hey Lieberlier-your doing a great job Browny!! Now call Blackwater to take over. WTF?
AS long as the US uses ” Contractors” as opposed to federal employees, this will continue.
Give these people goverment jobs and they have a stake in the system. I worked civil service for 26 years and oversaw 1,500 to 1,800 union/ federal workers.
THEY WILL GET THE JOB DONE.
Interesting, this article. Someone named Lieberman, and one named Goldstein, are giving us nightmare scenarios of terorism ‘just around the corner”, the same week I get this forwarded to me in my email.
Enjoy the part that states: “But, unfortunately, America hasn’t been yet ‘hurt enough’ by terrorism….”
Here ya go, Megaphone at work!!!:
[I am only forwarding this because I care about our country and you!
The next predicted terrorist attack
AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN!
READ AND JUST PASS IT ON.
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based.. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard -- she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. But, unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. Will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again... Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked! Every strategy we have is reactionary.
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says20that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate.. (I. E., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as rural America this time (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas , they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the abov e is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts.. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown' -- having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U. S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East .. These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will, inevitably, face. America still has only have a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out... In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the governm ent to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism..
Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City, this was days, in some cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, to respond to in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools, too, develop plans of actions, as they do in Israel .
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc..., as this is the preferred communicatio n source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak? You need to have a plan.
If you believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send to every concerned parent or guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whatever and whomever. Nothing will happen if you choose not to do so, but in the event it does happen, this particular email will haunt you..."I should have sent this to........ ", but I didn't believe it and just deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones!!!]
WOW, huh?
All farang has to say to this is BOO! from your friendly, neighborhood Zionist!
This sounds peculiar coming from someone with the name Abraham. Compulsive bather?