Bomb Parts Successfully Smuggled Into 10 Federal Office Buildings

sf-federal-building.jpg Terrific news, everyone! CNN has obtained a copy of a report being delivered to Congress this morning detailing how undercover agents managed to sneak bomb-making components into ten "Level IV" federal office buildings in four different, unnamed U.S. cities (including, quite possibly, our own). The agents then went ahead and assembled the bombs in restrooms and trotted about the buildings' offices with the improvised devices in their briefcases, unbeknownst to all concerned.

This was all an effort by the Government Accountability Office to call out the Federal Protective Service, or FPS, which has been known to be an ill-managed agency with poorly trained security staff. The kicker: the report includes a photo of a federal guard asleep at his post, and another incident of a guard who accidentally sent an infant in a carrier through an x-ray machine when he wasn't paying attention. Awesome job!

Email This Entry


Comments (6) [rss]

Find me a TSA or FPS guard that doesn't look like a drooling, developmentally disabled, short bus rider and I'll actually believe that I might be safe.

Not surprising in the least. Government office building security, just like airport security, is an elaborate, but meaningless, ritual designed to convince the public that something is being done when in fact everyone involved knows that an intelligent and determined terrorist could bypass the faux "security" with ease.

Here's some interesting reading on the subject:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security

My vote is it is actually designed to get citizens used to having agitprop blared at us over the tannoy and complying with humiliating and intrusive requests made by people who don't care about safety but do have a badge.

Great... another excuse for the government to create further hampers on the common person going about their daily lives: "It's for your safety!"

Arrest those undercover agents. Duh.

But don't try to bring toothpaste in!

Post a comment (Comment Policy)

Tips

About SFist

SFist is a website about San Francisco.

Editor: Brock Keeling
Publisher: Gothamist

Contribute

Latest Tip:

New Years Eve is coming up quick. Check out SFNewYEars.com for information on all the parties in SF.
[more]

Latest Photo:

Recent Comments

Subscribe

Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from SFist.

All Our RSS