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Half Ton of Bomb Material Stored a Few Miles from the White House
September 08, 2006 12:18 PM
With virtually no questions asked, an undercover ABC News team was able to purchase a half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials and move it into a storage shed only a few miles from the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
Despite its use in the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there are still no federal laws restricting the purchase of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer, widely sold at farm supply stores.
The ABC News undercover team made the purchases, in cash, at farm supply stores in North Carolina and Virginia and were never once asked for any valid ID.
Legislation requiring buyers of ammonium nitrate to be registered by the federal government have been blocked by the agricultural industry, according to the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Pete King (R-NY).
The results of the ABC News investigation are "a wake-up call that the American people and the Congress needs," King said. A law requiring sellers to record purchases has passed King's committee and is awaiting a vote by the full House.
Brian Ross' full investigative report will air Monday on World News with Charles Gibson and as part of an ABC News Special Report on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. (10pm EST/9pm Central)
September 8, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (231)
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i agree w/ jk WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU AND YOUR TEAM, BRIAN? I am all about justice, investigations, etc. but not just now but in the past as well, some of your "trick" research's is an open call to bad guys giving them ideas they may never otherwise have had. Pandora's box is open. I know you are trying to prove a point, but at who's expense? It's almost a Catch 22
Posted by: carol | Sep 8, 2006 1:47:15 PM
I wonder - if someone conspired to place a half ton of explosives in the basement of the ABC News building, and then broadcast it on National TV, would ABC thing that was helping ABC with its own security?
If ABC had any jounalistic ethics whatsoever, at the point where they found they could potentially purchase explosive without ID, then that should have been immediately reported to the authorities. Instead ABC conspired to conjure up a threat against our government.
All involved parties to this should be immediately arrested and tried on illegal purchase of explosives with intent to publicly expose and politcize national security deficiencies, and aid terrorist organizations plots to do damage to America.
Shame on ABC. First you try to re-write history for the benefit of the Democrats. Now this.
Posted by: One_American | Sep 8, 2006 1:51:28 PM
Not that I'm defending dc or the bush security agenda, but they stop intrusions on the white house all the time...
Back to the pointless article, so you were able to get some ingredients for a possible bomb within miles of the whitehouse? So what? Miles from the white house puts you in virginia or maryland... Try getting it to the white house, I'm sure you'll have a little more trouble.
Posted by: JK | Sep 8, 2006 1:52:20 PM
Osama, are you reading this crap? Great job informing Terrorists of the ease of mounting a attack. Brian, you so called journalist, you belong on the View.
Posted by: shawn | Sep 8, 2006 1:52:39 PM
So?? I dont get the point. Could the blast from the explosives destroy the whitehouse from that distance away? Try sneeking a nuclear missle into the same storage shed, then you will get my attention. So the options were you blow up a storage shed or fertilize the grass? If you were white, black, or asian there was probably no suspition of any wrong doing . Now try getting a few Arab men from pakistan between the ages of 18 and 40 and pulling the same stunt. That would really test the new measures. If that got through then we would have a real problem
Posted by: Dave | Sep 8, 2006 1:52:47 PM
This probably shows that much more has to be done within the country and not somewhere far away.
How come people in the U.S. are so blind to see what is going on in their bakcyard but try to spread democracy in countries a good fifty percent can't show ona map?
Here in RUssian where i'm temporary staying the U.S. seems obsessed with "helping people" but their own.
Posted by: Gerhard | Sep 8, 2006 1:57:21 PM
Above, Steve said maybe ABC is on the Bush payroll. Well, maybe he's right, if they can't give a true version of the 911 Path. Reportedly, they have altered things to suit themselves. Going to "edit until the last minute" etc. What's wrong with using what you KNOW to be true and not making it up ??
Posted by: Betty | Sep 8, 2006 1:58:35 PM
Would'nt your crew have felt really stupid if the material would have ignited??? O yea, that only happens with guns!
Posted by: Scot | Sep 8, 2006 1:59:16 PM
You wonder why the terrorists side with the liberals. They basically do the planning for them. Way to go ABC, did you give the terrorists the address of storage facility and also give then a list of supplies and phone numbers of where to get it.
Posted by: Sam | Sep 8, 2006 2:00:45 PM
The Democrats probably put ABC to this after the who temper tantrum about the facts (the biggest enemy to democrats) in ABC's miniseries. Does any one else wonder why president AKMEDENJADONMFODFOFGHLLADOFj;fgg
aoWAKOJIHADWAKO seems to use liberal ideas to put down AMERICA? MAYBEE instead of planning terrorist attacks ABC could do a story on that........yeah right.
Posted by: Stu | Sep 8, 2006 2:07:26 PM
It seems that reporters and news teams are interested in finding loop holes in our system, however, it is ludicrous to advertise them. Let's not put anymore ideas out there shall we!
Posted by: Sheryl | Sep 8, 2006 2:10:10 PM
This has to be one of the worst premises for a news story that I have seen. These clowns, as I dare not use the word "reporter" because it has the connotation that actual news will be dispersed, ought to be fired. If there is nothing to report as news, maybe you take the day off, not create your own fertilizer...
Posted by: DH | Sep 8, 2006 2:12:09 PM
Gimme a break! You think the "bad guys" of this world didn't already know this? It's guys like Brian who put pressure on the Gov't to make changes.
Posted by: MP | Sep 8, 2006 2:12:12 PM
Wow! You can buy fertilizer in D.C.? With all the bull shoveled on the Hill, I wouldn't think there was a need for it.
Posted by: Jerry | Sep 8, 2006 2:14:08 PM
Unfortunatley, if Billy Clinton would have done his job instead of his secretary we might not even be in this situation right now. He left this whole terrorist mess for Bush because democrats only know how cry about things, they dont know how or what to do when it comes to taking action. They can criticize but they dont know any alternatives to what they are criticizing. And this whole attempt for censorship this miniseries shows exactly what they want to do and that is control the media ,which they already do pretty much control, but apparently they want more. This sounds like IRAN to me. Dems want get rid of truth and replace it with liberalism.
Posted by: Howard | Sep 8, 2006 2:14:54 PM
Walter Cronkite would’ve never reported this type of material.
Posted by: Dave | Sep 8, 2006 2:14:56 PM
So with this show and with Path to 9/11 ABC is obviously just making up the news now. Who could believe anything this of the bs this network puts out? Credibility?pffft!
Posted by: John Curry | Sep 8, 2006 2:17:25 PM
Good, another free campaign commercial for the Democratic National Committee. How many more of these to you plan leading up to the election, Mr. Ross? How about a report on how to get FBI files into the White House basement? How about a report on the different ways to dispose of pregnant mistress' or even better, how about a report on how Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney conspired with the oil companies to bring the price of gasoline? How about this one, a report on the conspiracy between Mr. Schumer and Mr. Fitzpatrick to falsely smear the Bush Administration? Here's another, during the last Presidential campaign, Mr. Kerry stated that he had a plan for victory in Iraq, maybe you could investigate and see what happened to it? See if it really existed. Any of these would be interesting stories, what do you think? Would be interesting to see a report on the threats and intimidation of former Clinton Administration officials regarding "Path to 9/11" and the caving in of ABC.
Posted by: Allen Land | Sep 8, 2006 2:17:58 PM
This is exactly the type of reporting we need to hold government officials to their word! For those who criticize these actions, remember the terrorists already know how to do this, they've been doing it for decades. Way past time for people in our country to wake up to the danger.
Posted by: Dan | Sep 8, 2006 2:20:00 PM
Wow! Journalist sure are clever. I'll bet they could probably 'drive off' without paying for gas, 'shoplift' without getting caught, 'skip out' on a dinner bill at a classy restaurant; or successfully engage in any number of anti-social and deleterious behaviors. Thank God there are a majority of 'well-intentioned' everyday folk who don't seek 'noteriety by abusing freedom in order to further their own careers and bragging about it in order to shine their egos and achieve self serving personal goals. One can generally group folks into three categories; those who 'build' a better world, those who 'destroy' the former, and of course those along for a free ride. Each has their own choice to make.
Posted by: Larry | Sep 8, 2006 2:21:12 PM
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