Federal Buildings Fail…So Does CNN

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I stumbled upon this report on CNN just a few moments ago, let me give you a chunk before I start talking

Plainclothes investigators sent to test security at federal buildings in four U.S. cities were successful in smuggling bomb components through guard posts at all 10 of the sites they visited, according to a government report. The investigators then assembled the bombs in restrooms and freely entered numerous government offices while carrying the devices in briefcases, the report said. The buildings contained offices of several federal lawmakers as well as agencies within the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security, which is responsible for safeguarding federal office buildings. CNN obtained the report late Tuesday, ahead of its expected release Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, conducted the tests to check on the effectiveness of the Federal Protective Service .The FPS protects federal buildings by having about 1,200 federal law enforcement officers oversee an army of 13,000 private security guards. In a videotape obtained by CNN, a covert GAO inspector places a bag containing bomb components on an X-ray machine conveyor belt and then walks through a magnetometer at an unidentified federal building. Unlike some covert tests that use simulated explosives, the GAO used actual bomb components in the test and publicly available information “to identify a type of device that a terrorist could use” to damage a building………

After the components were smuggled into the building and assembled, the GAO says, it took steps to ensure the device would not explode. But to demonstrate the device’s destructive power, the GAO videotaped the detonation of several devices at a remote site.

After the long line of dots, and before the next paragraph.  CNN then quotes the report about what specifically was used to create the IED, how much it costs, that the parts could be found and bought on the internet, and provides a video depicting how the agents’ got past security.

Thank you CNN for telling me that Federal Buildings have a lack of security and that they are working towards fixing it…but why did you broadcast to the world how to blow up our buildings?  I would prefer you just said it happened, not specifically how someone could do it.

The point of the report was to show a hole in security.  The result of the report showed that the media doesn’t care what is in a story, or its consequences, they just care that they have something to report.