DHS Ignoring Maritime Cargo Law, Lawmaker Says

Rep. Thompson calls Chertoff's resistance 'troubling'

On the heels of faulting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for misinterpreting a congressional mandate to scan 100 percent of passenger air cargo, House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has decried the department's resistance to scanning 100 percent of US-bound maritime cargo for terrorist threats as well. ....