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It was five years ago the ABC's Brian Ross launched his investigation into the feasibility of using cargo containers at seaports for weapons smuggling. Back then he demonstrated how uranium evades scanners when encased in lead shields. So it should be no surprise that ABC alone covered the latest technology to scan incoming cargo for radioactive material. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff unveiled the machine as "the wave of the future" at a photo-op in Los Angeles. DHS claims the new device in its $2bn development program has a 95% accuracy rate. Ross countered with the Government Accountability Office number--45%. His unnamed scientist sources told him that "the only real improvement" in the new machines is fewer false positives. Now kitty litter and bananas are no longer mistaken for a nuclear weapon.
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