Kaboom! State Dept. finally gives explosive answer

WND ^ | May 27, 2014 | Steve Peacock

[Steve Peacock]

Bureau boss overseeing shipments has Benghazi connections

The State Department bureau tasked with secretly sending to embassies plastic and liquid explosives operates under the guidance of Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, whom a congressional panel last year separately found to be largely responsible for security lapses in Benghazi, WND has learned.

A series of WND articles recently exposed the purchase and international transport of many hundreds of pounds of plastic, sheet and linear explosives along with thousands of containers of high-energy liquid explosives.

Weeks after a State official laughed in response to WND’s inquiry, the department belatedly reacted to a follow-up request for information about how, where and by whom the blasting equipment will be used.

The inquiry sought to determine whether, as contracting documents indicate, State will ship the bombing equipment globally through its Sterling, Virginia-based Diplomatic Pouch and Mail facility, or DPM. It’s the primary government facility by which secure pouches and crates are sent to U.S. embassies and consulates.

[House Atreides]

“...As incompetent as this administration is, I doubt they can ship rubber bands and paper clips securely and keep track of them.”
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Right, the Obama regime operatives will likely ship the plastic explosives with the detonators in the same package so it will be easier to keep track of.

What could possibly go wrong?

[The Antiyuppie]

There was an undying rumor that the Rooskies had assembled one in the DC embassy after years and years of painstaking assembly of parts from diplomatic pouches. This would be much trickier to do today because the detection equipment is so much better. I would, of course, assume that we had done the same thing in the Moscow embassy.

[lavaroise]

These people are not accountable, hence the incompetence. The country is rudderless because the GOP is too stupid and gutless to make the point.

PC and making nice with Zero is going to kill us. I seem to remember in the Army of examples like these.

[Neidermeyer]

Also, certainly these items are NOT travelling aboard commercial airliners are they?
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I hear they have a contract with Malaysian Air.

[tanknetter]

What use do embassies have for things like this, if not for equipping terrorists and suicide bombers.

They're used for blowing crypto gear and other classified/sensitive equipment (including weaponry that the embassy may have on-hand) in the event the Embassy/Consulate is successfully breached by an enemy force.

You may recall that when that Navy EP-3 Aires (spy version of the P-3 Orion) was forced down into China in the early days of the Bush 43 Administration, the crew was unable to complete the destruction of the gear because they were using hammers.

Cooking off high explosives inside an aircraft is, obviously, not a good idea. But using it to destroy equipment in the secure rooms inside a building is very much a preferable option.