Clark Ervin was strolling down a Manhattan street in April 2005 when the red light on his BlackBerry indicated he had a message. The former inspector general of the Homeland Security Department looked at the device and saw that the Associated Press had reported the results of the latest IG investigation on airport security. Those results showed no improvement in screeners’ abilities to detect deadly weapons, compared with the results of similar investigations done in 2001 and 2003. “It was far easier than it should have been even after the [Sept. 11, 2001] attacks for government investigators to sneak these weapons through,
That point is that DHS, for the most part, has failed in its mission to secure the country from attacks in key security areas, such as aviation, ports, mass transit, borders, intelligence, emergency preparedness and response, and cybersecurity. “The American people remain far more vulnerable to a terror attack than we should be,

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