Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Left Coast Kratom Shop: Premium Bali Kratom Powder

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Invisiblewingnutx

Registered: 09/24/00
Posts: 2,287
ABC Investigated over Uranium Smuggling Report
    #1905731 - 09/11/03 01:45 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

ABC Investigated over Uranium Smuggling Report

CNN.com via Google | September 11, 2003. | Kelli Arena, Kevin Bohn, Terry Frieden and Jeanne Meserve contributed to the report.


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Justice Department is considering whether to bring charges against two ABC News employees who smuggled depleted uranium into the United States as part of a report on port security, government sources said.


The network said Thursday that its employees had done nothing illegal.


Federal authorities recovered a shipment of about 15 pounds of harmless material within an hour of its arrival at the port of Los Angeles, California, the sources said.


ABC said two producers packed the depleted uranium into a suitcase sent to Los Angeles aboard a container ship from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The network's report on homeland security vulnerabilities, by investigative correspondent Brian Ross, is scheduled to air Thursday night.


"(The bogus smuggling) forces us to chase ghosts using homeland resources at a time when we are trying to prevent terrorist acts in our country.


"It is a valid and important test. We do not believe we committed any crime," ABC News Vice President Jeffrey Schneider said.


He said those involved in the project did not intend to defraud the government since it is legal to import the uranium, although they did not register it as required.


The Justice Department said it would not comment publicly about any investigation, but an official said any allegations about possible criminal conduct are taken seriously. However, there was no hint of charges being brought soon.


ABC official: 'We simply tested the system' In a report published on its Web site, ABC News said it successfully brought the material into the United States from Indonesia to test security at American ports.


"Terrorists would not declare the uranium," Schneider said, explaining why it was a valid test of the system meant to detect weapons of mass destruction attempting to enter the United States.


"We simply tested the system," he said.


ABC said weapons-grade uranium would have given off a similar signature in the screening devices that officials use at American ports.


But Department of Homeland Security officials said their screening system worked.


Department spokesman Dennis Murphy said that the container had been examined on arrival in Los Angeles and that radiation detectors would have indicated the presence of weapons-grade uranium.


"We don't calibrate for the fake stuff," he said.


Murphy said the department will take a "hard look at what happened there."


But he said the ABC report "forces us to chase ghosts using homeland resources at a time when we are trying to prevent terrorist acts in our country."

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshakta
Infidel
Registered: 06/03/03
Posts: 2,633
Last seen: 19 years, 10 months
Re: ABC Investigated over Uranium Smuggling Report [Re: wingnutx]
    #1905860 - 09/11/03 02:08 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

That is a toughy. I saw the report when they did it originally. The question is whether the claim about the detectors is true or not.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblewingnutx

Registered: 09/24/00
Posts: 2,287
Re: ABC Investigated over Uranium Smuggling Report [Re: shakta]
    #1906948 - 09/11/03 06:56 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

funny how it is a 'harmless substance' in this context, but in another is a WMD killing millions of children.

I don't doubt the bit about the detectors calibration.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshakta
Infidel
Registered: 06/03/03
Posts: 2,633
Last seen: 19 years, 10 months
Re: ABC Investigated over Uranium Smuggling Report [Re: wingnutx]
    #1907093 - 09/11/03 07:40 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

You would now more than I would. The process they went through was pretty interesting.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Left Coast Kratom Shop: Premium Bali Kratom Powder


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* CIA asks Justice Dept. to review prisons report lonestar2004 368 0 11/09/05 09:09 AM
by lonestar2004
* ABC News Declares Oswald Acted Alone LearyfanS 652 8 10/28/03 07:53 PM
by luvdemshrooms
* surface to air missile smuggling
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )
shakta 3,383 87 08/20/03 06:03 PM
by infidelGOD
* Pentagon WMD Report Stokes Doubts About Prewar Intel Zahid 430 0 09/29/03 11:10 PM
by Zahid
* What the Pre-War Intelligence Reports Won't Tell You About Iraq's Nukes
( 1 2 all )
Psychoactive1984 2,208 21 05/06/05 10:44 AM
by zappaisgod
* Whistleblower Explodes 9-11 Commission Report SquattingMarmot 735 2 08/05/04 09:25 AM
by Learyfan
* Pilot Reports Missile Fired At Airliner gregorio 573 2 12/06/05 06:20 AM
by gregorio
* Substance Wasn't Uranium
( 1 2 all )
GabbaDjS 1,755 22 10/04/02 03:19 PM
by luvdemshrooms

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Enlil, ballsalsa
475 topic views. 2 members, 14 guests and 30 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 14 queries.