Criminal Records, Bogus Licenses Among Truckers at Key U.S. Port

ABC News ^ | March 7, 2006 | Pierre Thomas

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"ABC News has learned that the cards, given to thousands of truckers by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were issued with virtually no background checks."

"According to the report, a review of incident logs involving truck drivers at the Newark Seaport in late 2005 revealed one who was identified as an MS-13 gang member. MS-13 has been described as one of the most dangerous gangs in the United States. The logs also highlighted an incident involving "four cabs without containers [which] exited the terminal without stopping at the red light and ignored verbal commands to stop."

I feel safe already. LET THE PORT DEAL ROLL!! :)

[digger48]

Who's running the ports now?

And where are the prosecutions?

[LurkedLongEnough]

More Stephen Flynn doofishness. He must be writing another fluff book. He's made vulnerability exposure a source of income for himself.

[Dog Gone]

How could DP World do a worse job than that?

[zarf]

So Bush's instinct after 9/11 was to oppose the creation of DHS.

He buckled when Congress demanded it.

Bush's first choice was the correct one.

Another example of a Congressional creation foisted on the executive in which Congress will blame yet never accept responsibility.

Great gig if you can buy it.

[danamco]

The source says it all, not a shred better than cbs!

Try and get an ID for your business visit at either Port Everglades or Miami!
I have a time of my life to get approved because the finger printing machines have a hard time to read my fingerprints specifically, every time delaying the approval of my I.D.!!
Again it is nothing but B.S. from the "drive-by" LSM's agenda to blame everything on President Bush!!!

[OldFriend]

And I guess all this was done in advance of the DPW deal?

Maybe we ought to turn the entire port operations all over America to the US government. The TSA does such a great job.

[Wolfie]

Eh. What's the worst that could happen?

[processing please hold]

Remember this story about middle eastern men and truck driving schools?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578638/posts

[umgud]

Yeah, I'll bet a sizable number of truckers on the docks are ragheads.

[TheLion]

Not suprising. To crack down on terror, we will have to crack down on all of the criminals here first.

[muawiyah]

It's not DHS passing out the ID cards ~ it's the New York Port Authority.

You do understand, of course, that the guys who really run the docks in New York and New Jersey are the mob.

[speekinout]

What does this have to do with the DPW contract? They don't issue passes to truck drivers.

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping

[Das Outsider]

You do understand, of course, that the guys who really run the docks in New York and New Jersey are the mob.

Albanian or Sicilian?

[muawiyah]

Last time I looked the main characters were still coming from the old families and they're all from the hills outside of Palermo, or up in Reggio de Calabria. In the US, the people known as Albanian mafia are identified more correctly as Albanian Roma.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Shoot the messenger

[bentover]

Can't blaim Hillary for this one. Maybe a mob thing though, you know Teemsters, Trucker.

[hipaatwo]

But ABC News has learned about a port threat from within — a major security breach at the ports of New York and New Jersey.

The new DHS report, obtained by ABC News, shows that of the 9,000 truckers checked, nearly half had evidence of criminal records. More than 500 held bogus driver's licenses, leaving officials unsure of their real identities.

HILLARY, SCHMUCKIE, MENENDEZ OVER HERE, READ THIS!

[Mo1]

Can you say Unions???