Nukes by mail

fissionable material delivered right to your front door...

Undercover congressional investigators posing as West Virginia businessmen obtained a license with almost no scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that enabled them to buy enough radioactive material from U.S. suppliers to build a "dirty bomb," a new government report says.

The investigators obtained the license within 28 days from officials at the NRC, the federal agency that in addition to regulating nuclear power plants oversees radioactive materials used in health care and industry, the report by the Government Accountability Office says. NRC officials approved the request with a minimal background check that included no face-to-face interview or visit to the purported company to ensure it existed and complied with safety rules, the report says.

Using a post-office box at Mail Boxes Etc., a telephone and a fax machine, the undercover investigators from the GAO obtained the license "without ever leaving their desks," the report says.

the bush administration has never been serious about homeland security... in fact, they've taken quite the opposite posture, leaving enough loopholes and doors open, and stirring up enough rage in potential terrorists, that the likelihood of a terrorist incident has INCREASED rather than decreased... why would they want to do this...? think about it... jihad, terrorism, al qaeda, and terrorist attacks are truly this administration's best friend... without them, bushco loses the ability to brandish its most effective weapon for keeping the citizens in line - fear, fear, fear... and as long as he's still running around out there, osama can remain the poster boy for our government's endless war...

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