A perfect ten is a great score, unless you're the Governmental Accountability Office and you're talking about how many times you were able to smuggle bomb-making materials into so-called high-security federal buildings. The GAO released a report yesterday documenting their study: not only were they able to get the bomb-making materials into the buildings, they were also able to walk around the buildings undetected. Joining The Takeaway to discuss this disturbing report is Mark Goldstein, director of physical infrastructure issues at the U.S. G.A.O., who led this investigation. Also joining the conversation is security strategist J.R. Roberts.
Here's the video that accompanied the GAO's report:
Click through for a transcript of this interview.
"The problem is that because the Federal Protective Service is so stretched in the responsibilities that it has, what we found is their ability to oversee and manage this task force is not as good as it needs to be."
—Mark Goldstein of the GAO on security in federal buildings
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