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9/11 Commission Air Cargo Screening Mandate, Fake Terror and an October Surprise. News of suspicious packages arriving from Yemen plundered the country into a panicked state of fear Friday morning. Some are calling it a fake terror plot thanks to the President’s remarks four days before the midterm election. Such an October surprise cannot be discounted entirely, but the point of this article is to chastise the Obama administration for dragging it’s feet on the 9/11 Commission air cargo screening mandate whether this particular scare today is a contrived fake terror plot or not.

It was September 15, 2009, near the anniversary of 911 that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) finally got around to implementing a cargo screening program for carrier packages entering the Unites States. The so-called Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP) implemented recommendations from the 9/11 commission issued three earlier.

The mandate required that all cargo containers carried on passenger airplanes be inspected by August 2010. It went into effect only partially on August 2nd and inexplicably the government is inspecting the wrong cargo. The initial focus is on domestic to domestic passenger flights and domestic to international locations.

I’m with you. Nobody cares about terrorism leaving our country except for Obama’s administration. For typical reasons (it’s harder) the government is not inspectingflights to the United States originating from foreign countries. Turns out that some inspection is occurring before the flights depart places like Yemen, but only 50% according to the TSA.

Additionally cargo planes themselves, 99% of cargo entering the United States, are not covered by the mandate and not screened. FedEx and UPS screen their own cargo using their own methods and standards of care. Obama and the Democrat majority in Congress have done nothing to close this preposterous loophole in our shoddy inspection methods which mandates that precious dollars be allocated to where they are needed least. 9/11 Commission Air Cargo Screening Mandate, Fake Terror and an October Surprise