NEST Looking for Radioactive Material that crossed border in Detroit TWO Months ago

Fox News Channel - Special Report with Brit Hume | 8/2/2002 | Carl Cameron

[6ppc]

Carl Cameron just came on a few minutes ago and said that radioactive materials were detected two months ago crossing the border in Detroit.

When Brit asked why they weren't detected immediately, Carl reported that the detectors have a store and forward system that can take as long as two days to forward the report!

Carl also said there have been 70 callouts of NEST since 9/11 and most incidents are cleared up in a few hours. This one is still unresolved after two months.

[6ppc]

This should be the last straw! The idiocy of having radiation detectors on the border and waiting two days to look at the data is mind boggling!

Probably fighting a windmill, but I'm going to write my congresscritter, senators and GWB about this one. How about some other folks doing the same?

[Sender]

Amen to that. They must scan the vehicles before they get to the crossing point, and have a real-time alarm. That way if the alarm goes off, traffic stops, and they can walk-search the line of vehicles at their leisure until they find the hot spot.

[Chad Fairbanks]

And it's apparently 2-days in Dog Years™, because it was detected two months ago...

[mewzilla]

Why bug the President? He's on that Islam is a religion of peace kick.

[billhilly]

Given the huge Arab population in and around Detroit, the crossing between there and Windsor, Onterio would seem the most likely place along our borders to have such an incident. The tunnel connecting the two cities and two countries is probably no more than two miles long, as is the bridge to the south of the cities.

Where better to have cells of terrorists?

[snippy_about_it]

bttt

[snippy_about_it]

On FOXNEWS tonight Col. David Hackworth says this might have been the material Padilla was waiting for.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump !