Investigation Finds Weaknesses in Federal Security

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WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators had no trouble smuggling bomb- making materials past ill-trained and poorly supervised guards at federal buildings, senators were told at a hearing Wednesday.

"This is the broadest indictment of a federal agency I have ever heard," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the performance of the Federal Protective Service, the office responsible for the safety of some 9,000 federal facilities. "This is really serious stuff."

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Investigation Finds Weaknesses in Federal Security

The committee, chaired by Lieberman, heard how Government Accountability Office investigators on 10 occasions carried the components for an improvised explosive device through...

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