Some bureaucracies never learn. Rampant Security Breaches at Fed. Bldgs.

[twyacht]

14 years after the bombing of the Federal Bldg. in Oklahoma, GAO covert operatives "tested" the security.

Uh,...10 out of 10 ALL FAILED. Video of sleeping guards, box full of handguns made it through receiving, 1 guard was running a porno site from his station. 1 guard on painkillers.

They actually got into the Dept. of Homeland Security!!!! with an IED...

Real bomb components (minus explosives), all made it through the sometimes unattended x-ray machine, and locked restrooms were unlocked by friendly employees for perfect strangers, who assembled the components and walked around some more...

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2009/07/08/gao-smuggles-bomb-parts-into-federal-buildings.htm

GAO Smuggles Bomb Parts into Federal Buildings
Wednesday July 8, 2009

Undercover government investigators succeeded in smuggling bomb components past Federal Protective Service’s (FPS) security guards at 10 out of 10 federal buildings in four major cities, according to a July 8, 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

After smuggling the parts needed for an “improvised explosive device” (IED) past the guard stations, the GAO agents assembled the non-explosive bombs and “walked freely around several floors of the facilities and into various executive and legislative branch offices with the IED in a briefcase.” The devices did not contain components that would actually allow them to detonate.

The specific buildings and cities where the tests were performed were not disclosed by the GAO due to the sensitivity of the report.

In its report, the GAO concluded that FPS has limited assurance that its guards are complying with orders. FPS does not have specific national guidance on when and how guard inspections should be performed. FPS’s inspections of guard posts at federal facilities are inconsistent and the quality varied in the six regions GAO visited. GAO also found that guard inspections are typically completed by FPS during regular business hours and in locations where FPS has a field office; and seldom on nights and on weekends.

In one rare nighttime test, FPS actually found one of its guards asleep at his post after taking the pain killer prescription drug Percocet. In another incident, an FPS guard failed to recognize or did not properly x-ray a box containing handguns at the loading dock of a high-security federal facility – the FPS itself.

Video here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8025140&page=1

Tax payer dollars at work,,,,and healthcare, crap and trade, and stimulus packages will be any better??

[runstowin]

The American people let government dudes and dudettes take care of a major part of their retirement, their schools, drugs, health care etc, really dumb.