Markey Calls for 100 Percent 'Scanning' of Incoming Shipping Containers

By Daniel Wasserbly / October 2, 2006 at 5:00 AM
A high-profile Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee has blasted port security legislation approved by Congress last week and sent to the president, fearing it allows too many holes through which a nuclear device could be smuggled. "The 9/11 Commission determined that the risk of maritime terrorism is at least as great as, if not greater than, the risk of terrorism involving civilian aviation," Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) said in a Sept. 29 floor speech. "The port security bill...

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