Perhaps you’ve heard already.  Perhaps not.  In either case, this is a perfect example of how Homeland Security is making us safer.  Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into the U.S. via two different entry points.

Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.

The investigators purchased a “small quantity” of radioactive materials from a commercial source, according to a Government Accountability Office report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican.

The investigators posed as employees of a fictitious company and brought the materials into the United States through checkpoints on the northern and southern borders, the report stated.

Now let’s review.  It was September 2001 when we were attacked and realized the assumed safety inside our own borders was nothing more than self-deception.  In response, the federal government executed a massive reorganization intended to make security a priority in its own cabinet-level post.  Almost five years later, our worst fear is realized: we are no safer than we were back then, and it’s easier than ever to bring weapons into the country.

I’m sorry, but what have I missed in all of this?  Shouldn’t one assume these many years later that sufficient time has elapsed and that failures on this scale indicate the level of ineptness within our government, ineptness that will cost civilian lives on scales heretofore unseen?