It’s no easy task.
Doublespeak?
July, 2012-
Port security: U.S. fails to meet deadline for scanning of cargo containers
April, 2006-
If a 100% screening was conducted at the foreign port- how did human cargo make it to downtown Seattle?
Jan, 2013-
CBP Catches Asian Gypsy Moths at Port of Tacoma
“CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.”
How do you keep terrorists and their weapons out by checking cargo after it shows up at the Port of Tacoma?
Do we wait to check for terrorists and their weapons until they arrive at the Seattle waterfront?
We did in 2006-
22 Smuggled Chinese Arrested at the Seattle Seaport
Note- the headline reports the arrest- further into the article we see that prior to the arrest- people released themselves from a shipping container and wandered around the pier in the wee hours.
“Once again, CBP was on the scene as the first line of defense in cargo security and against dangerous illegal activity posing a threat to our nation’s security,” said Tom Hardy, CBP director of field operations for Seattle. “CBP screens 100 percent of all maritime containers that pose a risk for terrorism at foreign ports before they are shipped to the United States.”
But not the containers used to transport human cargo?
CBP was the first line of defense?
Feb, 2013-
News video:
At 3:12 the United States Secretary of Homeland Security explains that it is important to keep asking questions:
Super Bowl security: Behind the scenes with the FBI
More here:
How are terrorists kept out while counterfeit goods come in?
Photo- Port Townsend scene