Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A disgruntled ex-cop with a loaded gun managed to bypass metal detectors and enter an FBI office using a fake police badge and inactive ID card, ABC News reports.
The ease with which the man entered the building has concerned federal authorities.
“He could’ve shot up half the office by that point,” one law enforcement expert told ABC.
Still, the Justice Department insists no one was in danger.
Lawmakers aren’t convinced.
“This latest report of a security breach at a federal building is concerning,” the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., told ABC News in a statement. “After our committee’s close review of the security practices and procedures at federal facilities in the wake of the tragic shooting at the Washington Navy Yard [last year], it became clear that the quality of the physical security at our federal buildings is in need of improvement, and this incident underscores that finding.”
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