Sunday, March 1, 2009

A good thing to delay - 100% scanning

Back in January 2009 I said scanning containers will not make us safer.
I stand by that statement.

Although the U.S. has not changed their position on this matter, at least it has become so difficult to implement it probably won't happen.


WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that Customs and Border Protection is not likely to meet a 2012 deadline for scanning all U.S.-bound containers.

"My initial view is that the 2012 deadline is not going to work. We're going to have to work on what we do beyond that," Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee. "To do 100 percent scanning requires agreements with many countries. There are lots of issues with that. There is a difference between screening and scanning in the lexicon of the cargo world, and I believe we are close to 100-percent screening now."

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