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Luvapottamus  Wrote:

I didn't really expect a pin on this, I try to maintain my threads and there isn't a whole lot I can add to this. We can do a little recap with some related stories though, I suppose.

We have ammo contracts for 450,000,000 rounds of hollow points and other types.

We have 2717 mineproof armored personel carriers on order.

Riot Gear for the Republican National Convention.

Anything else?

Have they ordered any cattle prods?

Not that I can find.

They have more taser drones than they can operate though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXG3RMGkG94

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

Gibbie  Wrote:

Have they ordered any cattle prods?

Not that I can find.

They have more taser drones than they can operate though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXG3RMGkG94

a half a million dollars for an rc helicopter?!
what a f*cking reamjob!

who is pocketing the 95% of taxpayers money from what this thing actually costs?

i wonder how much the ammo dhs bought cost us, 10 billion dollars?
all this post 911 security infrastructure besides being a tyrannical nightmare is also a financial boondoggle

Quote:DHS requests plastic explosives and then hides request

Gibbie  Wrote:

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

I didn't really expect a pin on this, I try to maintain my threads and there isn't a whole lot I can add to this. We can do a little recap with some related stories though, I suppose.

We have ammo contracts for 450,000,000 rounds of hollow points and other types.

We have 2717 mineproof armored personel carriers on order.

Riot Gear for the Republican National Convention.

Anything else?

Have they ordered any cattle prods?

Not that I can find.

They have more taser drones than they can operate though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXG3RMGkG94

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

Demolition/Breaching – PRIMASHEET® 1000

Demolition/Breaching—PRIMASHEET® 2000

meh ... I only use PRIMASHEET® 3000

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interesting, that would most likely be wanted for Emergency Destruction such as in Destroying Documents and Safes. So someone is planning on Destroying some Safes with Documents in them or a bunch of Documents in a hurry. There are provisions in place for ED, have been for a long time so this request is not routine. Routine destruction would require paperwork but ED is a different story. Something doesn't add up, there is nothing in the document to make me think it is associated with an exercise, that's the first thing I looked for because so many of these things are just paperwork exercises.
I am ED qualified btw.

A solicitation placed today at the Government marketplace shows that the Department of Homeland Security, via the Transportation Safety Administration has requested 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX, with a deliver date by 31 August 2012. That is less than 4 days before the start of the Democrat National Convention.

Why would the DHS/TSA order such material? From their Statement of Work:

Name of Requisitioning Office: National Canine Program (NCP)/ Canine Explosives Section (CES)

SECTION II: Purpose

Scope of the Product, Service, or Outcome:
The CES requires the 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX to provide Canine Explosive Training Aids (CETAs) to NCP participants. The supplier must be able to meet the exact requirements by August 31st, 2012. Substituions for this product are not acceptable

SECTION III: Background

The CES is required to provide NCP participants with CETAs. The CES has selected to use High Density Ammonium Nitrate and A-5 Flake RDX as it will provide NCP participants with a more realistic training aid and compliment the current aids provided.

This all comes on the heels of a solicitation for sheet style high powered plastic explosives that we reported on earlier in the week.

The problem is very clear. As stated in the ATF Law Enforcement Guide to Explosives Incident Reporting document:

In order to detonate ammonium nitrate, the use of a booster is required. Commercially, Pentolite and RDX are used as a booster, while the military will often use TNT as the booster.

Instead of using a poor quality analog (aka hamburger) for Ammonium Nitrate to train dogs, they are requesting High Density, or the Kobe Beef of Ammonium Nitrate (AN). And in order to detonate the AN, RDX is used. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting BOTH components of a binary explosive compound to be delivered to a government facility in downtown Atlantic City, New Jersey.

To put the amount of explosives into perspective, Timothy McVeigh used 5,000 pounds of AN and motor racing fuel. RDX has a much greater explosive capacity than racing fuel, and McVeigh was a party to mass murder and destruction that would be on par with these materials being detonated.

If a dog needed only 1 ounce of each material in order to be trained and tested, there is enough material for 11,200 dogs at the same time.

http://theintelhub.com/2012/08/08/dhs-or...xplosives/