An Investigative Guide to Smuggling Liquid

Alberto Stegeman is an investigative journalist and host of Undercover in the Netherlands, a hidden camera show where they infiltrate and disclose some of the darker parts of life. Among the show's successes, they've exposed a child prostitution ring, a travel agency offering sex tours, shady private detectives and holes in Dutch royal security.

He has also smuggled a fake bomb and drugs onto an airliner with the assistance of an associate, who had taken a job as a baggage handler.

Early last month, his team purchased six bottles of Bacardi from a duty-free shop, took them home, replaced the contents with water and on February 16th, they got them through security at the Amsterdam airport, changed planes at Heathrow and managed to transport the six liters of liquid all the way to Dulles without incident.

As you may remember, the "Underwear Bomber", Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab also boarded a plane at Amsterdam bound for the United States and as Stegeman has demonstrated, perhaps security hasn't gotten much tighter.

Detroit News reporter Catherine Jun was interviewed for the March 7th broadcast and thus, her paper has the details.
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ETA: I didn't see the broadcast and no video appears available on the web, but according a report, Mr. Stegeman was subjected to an extra-thorough search, yet the adulterated liquids were not discovered.

Sheriff Replies to Rachel Maddow & MSNBC

Bossier Parish (LA) Sheriff Larry Deen has started training civilians to help with riot control, while Rachel Maddow and MSNBC have called into question his motivation and the need for the program.

After the jump is Maddow's eight minute segment, a link to the press release and article she cites, plus a video of the Sheriff's response;

Sweeps: Inside the Michigan Militia

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Snip: Congressional Anthrax Scare

The FBI said Monday five letters were sent to the offices of senators or congressmen in Mobile and Montgomery. They were addressed to the offices of U.S. Reps. Jo Bonner of Mobile and Bobby Bright of Montgomery, plus U.S. Sens. Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby.

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ETA: More Complete Info about the Situation

Was an Obama Effigy Hung in Plains?

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What the Freak is Up in Denver?

No, this isn't a post about the random pianos...

Instead, it's an expression of wonderment about Denver Police's claims that they "unintentionally" misled the public by characterizing a planned attack on a union office, as an act of vandalism and something akin to a wall thermometer falling off the wall.

And, I guess it's also a cautionary tale because the union office in question, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been heavily identified as having connections to the Obama administration, the Democratic Party and ACORN, by portions of the media and public.