The Department of Homeland (in)Security a black hole for tax money
So why is it that we’ve spent billions of dollars to supposedly make our country safe from terrorists when the most basic safeguards to ensure our Nuclear material safe have never been put in place?
According to the NY Times, investigators from the Government Accountability Office applied for a licence from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to purchase equipment containing fissionable material in sufficient amounts to create a small but effective “dirty bomb”. The GAO set up a corporation and a post office box, and applied for the license. Within 28 days the license showed up in that post office box with no company inspection or audit, no oversight whatsoever and, even worse, the license was a document that could be easily altered, allowing anyone to change the amount of fissionable material that could be purchased.
I, for one, find it mind boggling that we’ve created a whole new branch of government bureacracy to handle this sort of security, we now have a FENCE being built on our borders (oh yeah, that’s gonna do a lot) yet the most BASIC safeguards have not been put in place in the Nuclear Regulatory Agency to ensure the safety of our Fissionable Material. But then again, if our President can’t pronounce it and can’t spell it, how can we expect his appointees and their employees to find and regulate it? Instead the top dogs have spent our dough destabilizing the Middle East. Brilliant. Oil is only three letters, could that have something to do with it?
Without a doubt history will record that Bush is the Worst President in the History of the United States. Bar none.
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