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MADem

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3. Sniffing for dirty bombs--radiological materials--is de rigeur nowadays. Not a secret.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 01:00 PM

Apr 2013

I would have called--or better yet, written an email and followed it up with a phone call--providing my full name, my journalistic credentials, my reason for the request, etc. And I would have started with the FBI.

The BAA isn't contracting for those kinds of people. The federal government is.

Amazing how many people named Fleming work in Public Affairs....

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Sniffing for dirty bombs--radiological materials--is de rigeur nowadays. Not a secret. MADem Apr 2013 #3

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