ARE MOST FEDERAL BUILDINGS WIDE OPEN TO TERRORIST ATTACKS? It’s hard not to think so, thanks to a highly disturbing Inspector General report that found “serious security” lapses likely at thousands of federal facilities across the country because General Services Administration bureaucrats have ignored an important national security directive for at least eight years!  

The directive told GSA to stop using easily counterfeited security badges that are unique to specific federal installations. Such badges are issued to employees and contractors to allow holders easy access to facilities like ports of entry, federal courthouses, computer data centers and laboratories.

“Unauthorized access to a federal facility increases the risk of a security event, such as an active shooter, terrorist attack, or theft of government property, as well as exposure of sensitive and proprietary information,” the IG reported. Even worse, the IG added, is that GSA “does not centrally monitor the management of building badges issued by its staff.”

How serious is this? Well, an ISIS attack against the federal courthouse in Rochester was only recently thwarted by the FBI.

Next question: Will anybody in government be fired for this?