[ RadSafe ] Article in todays Washington Post- RadiationDetectors for Border Are Delayed Again

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

The perimeter of almost any garbage dump is far more secure than the US
boarder (to be fair, it's a lot shorter, too, and there isn't anything
like as much effort being expended on sneaking things in.) 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Robert J. Gunter
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:59 AM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Article in todays Washington Post-
RadiationDetectors for Border Are Delayed Again

Go to any garbage dump in the country and they have the problem solved.
If the alarm goes off, the truck goes back.


Robert J. Gunter, CHP
CHP Consultants
rjgunter at chpconsultants.com
www.chpconsultants.com
www.chpdosimetry.com
Tel:  +(865) 387-0028
Fax:  +(865) 483-7189


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:01 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Article in todays Washington Post -
RadiationDetectors for Border Are Delayed Again

If they've "got to do something!", why are they using the my tax money
to do it.

--- "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
wrote:

> I don't think that accomplishing anything constructive is the goal, at

> least at the DHS level.  I think they view radiation detection 
> equipment as a great thing to focus attention on, as the chances of 
> someone actually trying to bring rad mat into the country are low, and

> not catching anything can be used as proof that the mere existence of 
> the systems have scared off the terrorists.  This gives them a 
> "success" to point and the ability to say, "We can't do everything at 
> once" when they are criticized for doing more or less nothing to stop 
> the flow of people into this country through unregulated pathways that

> cause hundreds, possibly thousands of deaths each year, enrich 
> criminal organizations, and make a mockery of all the other systems 
> that try to regulate entry.
> 
> But then, the watch word is, "We've got to do something!", not "We've 
> got to do something constructive."
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Steven Dapra
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:58 PM
> To: Philip Egidi; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Article in todays Washington Post - 
> RadiationDetectors for Border Are Delayed Again
> 
> Nov. 20
> 
>          I wonder what the likelihood is that these fancy-schmancy 
> high-priced doo-dads will accomplish anything constructive.  I mean 
> "constructive" in the sense of protecting the US of A from rogue 
> nukes; not in the sense of dressing up someone's resume, or of feeding

> some federal employees' already bloated egos, or of making the 
> manufacturers and the salesmen even richer than they already are.
> (And don't forget
> those high-priced maintenance contracts that will go on forever and 
> ever and ever and ever . . . . .)
> 
> Steven Dapra
> sjd at swcp.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:11 AM 11/20/07 -0700, Philip Egidi wrote:
> >fyi
> >
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR20071
> >11901743_pf.html
> >
> >Radiation Detectors for Border Are Delayed Again
> >
> >By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
> >Washington Post Staff Writer
> >Tuesday, November 20, 2007; A01
> >
> >
> >
> >A $1.2 billion plan by the Department of Homeland
> Security to buy a new
> 
> >kind of radiation-detection machine for the
> nation's borders has been
> >put on hold again, a blow to one of the Bush
> administration's top
> security goals.
> >
> >

+++++++++++++++++++
"If you guard your toothbrushes and diamonds with equal zeal, you'll
probably lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds."
- Former national security advised McGeorge Bundy
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


 
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