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Border fails the test of undercover U.S. investigators
Thu Sep 27, 2:32 PM



OTTAWA (CBC) - Undercover American investigators who snuck duffel bags across the U.S.-Canada border have concluded that a smuggler could easily carry radioactive material or other contraband from one country to the other.


The Government Accountability Office, an investigative branch of the U.S. Congress, sent out investigators to test how hard it would be to transfer large red duffel bags at unguarded and unmonitored spots along the 8,000-kilometre border.


The tests were done from four northern states, which were not identified. The exercises were videotaped and photographed. During one of the tests, a citizen noticed the unusual activity and alerted a border official, but by the time authorities came to the scene, they could not locate the undercover investigators.


"Our work shows that a determined cross-border violator would likely be able to bring radioactive materials or other contraband undetected into the United States by crossing the U.S.-Canada border at any of the locations we investigated," the accountability office report states.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/27092007/3/canada-border-fails-test-undercover-u-s-investigators.html

[dogshed]

This is just silly. What next. I suppose next they will have investigators
knock apples from trees with sticks to see if there is still gravity.

NPR did a story about two border towns that share a library that sits
on the border. I saw a news item on TV about a border crossing
where the crosser is supposed to pick up a phone and call in their
information. Most people just ignore it. There are a million other news
stories like this. There is no reason to send an investigator.