I agreed with you, and just intended to further strenthen your statement, by pointing out that this article is not just some journalist making statements, but it's an official DHS statement.
In the meantime, I looked and here is what the Dems claim -- that only 5% are screened, the rest come in, without being even checked for radiation. The DHS statement refutes that completely.
Here is an excerpt from NANCY PELOSI's statement:
"The biggest threat to our security is the fissile materials that are still out there, the nuclear materials of the post-Soviet Union world. They were formally weapons of the Soviet Union and now they are not secured adequately and available to terrorists.
"The single biggest threat is those weapons in a container coming into our country. I really can't understand why this Administration has refused to do what is necessary to protect our ports from that threat. And, it's not only our ports; when these containers come from overseas to our country, they are unloaded onto a truck, onto a train, drive right through your city, your town, perhaps past your home. So the danger goes well beyond our ports.
"Here at home, only 6 percent of containers entering our ports are screened. Yet at two of the busiest terminals in the world - in Hong Kong - 100 percent of containers are screened. If Hong Kong terminals can do it, why can't America?
"That is why Democrats are proposing that 100 percent of the containers that comes to our ports are screened, at the port of origin - long before they reach our shores and our waterways."
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=6466
What Pelosi is stating is NOT true and it's misleading. What she proposes, it's already being done.
THAT was my point, that the Dems statements need to be refusted with the truth -- which was your point as well.
Sen. Kay Hutchison
The final question on this issue concerned port security. I wrote, "Ninety-five percent of our nation's overseas trade is carried via ship. Yet only two percent of inbound containers are checked by U.S. Customs at our nation's ports.