Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, July 30, 2007 3:22:11 PM
From an article about the new Congressional mandate to search all of the cargo before it enters the United States.
Read it here.In an interesting turn of phrase, Hawley referred to such misguided but
politically popular mandates as “security theater.” He noted that such
theater trivializes security operations while doing little to protect
Americans.
The current grandstanding by Congress is all the more baffling
considering that — just last year — it passed legislation in the SAFE
Port Act that called for testing the theory of total cargo scanning in
order to evaluate its effectiveness. A report on three pilot sites is
due to Congress next year.
By why wait for a report Congress demanded last year when it can score political points this year?