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Told ya so: Massive expansion of customs agents invited increased border corruption

The problem was not only inevitable as the sunrise, this blog specifically predicted it on the front end. Via AP ("Cartels trying to infiltrate border agencies," March 12):Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don't have the money to catch all the corrupt agents, homeland security officials told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday.James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Internal Affairs, told a Senate homeland security subcommittee in Washington that only about one in 10 of the new hires for agency jobs are given polygraph tests, and of those, 60 percent are deemed unsuitable for employment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).