Posted on 03/04/2006 12:31:35 PM PST by FairOpinion
"Screening and Inspection: CBP screens 100% of all cargo before it arrives in the U.S.- using intelligence and cutting edge technologies. CBP inspects all high-risk cargo. "
We need to correct the misconception that is repeatedly spread by the MSM, that we only inspect a fraction of containers. Note, we scan them BEFORE they get anywhere near our ports, and inspect the suspicious ones. This is why I am putting this in FrontPage news, because even many FReepers aren't aware that we do indeed scan 100% of the containers, BEFORE they get into our ports, which IS the right thing to do.
Also note the detailed discussion of the Dubai deal.
And thanks for MNJohnnie for finding this originally.
Define "Scan". According to testimony this week in congress, "scan" means looking over the manifests.
Scan means looking at paperwork, not physical inspection.
They xray about 5%, and actually put hands on less than a percent of the cargo traffic.
Screening means screening, NOT "looking at the paperwork". You don't need "cutting edge technology" to look at paperwork.
Apparently DHS needs multi-millions to do it. That's what this press release says.
your post is not quite true. We dont visually inspect or scan 100% of the cargo. That would be impossible.
Screening includes checking manifests looking for bad signs.
I would like to believe you, but, it is not clear. Note in the first section 6th paragraph: "screen information on 100% of cargo" screening information is NOT SCREENING THE CONTAINERS.
From this, we can't claim "100% screening of the containers".
Regardless, this is good information.
You are both right. I looked again.
"CBP uses intelligence and a risk-based strategy to screen information on 100% of cargo before it is loaded onto vessels destined for the United States. All cargo that is identified as high risk is inspected, either at the foreign port or upon arrival into the U.S. "
You indeed can't physically inspect all cargo. But I also read, that all containers to go past radiation detectors, so they are screened for radiation.
Do you not realize their is a difference between scanning and inspecting? I guess not.
Ok, but some cargo could be listed as Food, but really be CBR chemicals, not nukes, they might not be "screened/scanned/whaterver".
Thanks MNJohnnie!
Your claim of 5% has not been substantiated by a document. I would conclude that IF we are inspecting 5%, then we are importing 5% high risk cargo. However, there is not any documentation to support my conclusion.
You should have the Mod change your headline.
This is from June 2005, so it must have been implemented by now:
Nation’s Busiest Seaports to Have Complete Radiation Detection Coverage by End of 2005
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010
June 3, 2005
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff today announced that the nation’s busiest seaports -- Los Angeles/Long Beach, California -- will have complete Radiation Portal Monitor (RPM) coverage by year’s end.
Three terminal locations, at Piers 400, 300 and Trans Pacific, within the Port of Los Angeles are scheduled to go on-line by the end of June. A total of ninety RPMs, which will screen all international container traffic and vehicles exiting the facility for nuclear materials or hidden sources of radiation, will be operational by December 2005.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=4530
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The point is that they look to find the high risk containers, BEFORE they are shipped to the US, inspect the high risk containers, mostly also BEFORE they get here, then have additional screening in the US ports, for radiation.
I sure wish we could find a video clip of that Stevedore guy that Jim Engle of Fox interviewed the other night. He was an ex marine, and he really told us who handles the stuff for P&O and DBW. We need to play that clip over and over again to really understand what is really happening here.
Yeah, terrorist are real good guys like that, they tell us what is high risk and what isn't so we know what to inspect. Come on, be for real.
And right in this press release:
"Use of Cutting-Edge Technology: CBP is currently utilizing large-scale X-ray and gamma ray machines and radiation detection devices to screen cargo. Presently, CBP operates over 680 radiation portal monitors at our nation’s ports (including 181 radiation portal monitors at seaports), utilizes over 170 large scale non-intrusive inspection devices to examine cargo, and has issued 12,400 hand-held radiation detection devices. The President’s FY 2007 budget requests $157 million to secure next-generation detection equipment at our ports of entry. Also, over 600 canine detection teams, who are capable of identifying narcotics, bulk currency, human beings, explosives, agricultural pests, and chemical weapons are deployed at our ports of entry. "
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