{"id":17206,"date":"2010-03-11T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=17206"},"modified":"2010-03-11T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:31:03","slug":"mexican-cartels-attempting-to-corrupt-border-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/mexican-cartels-attempting-to-corrupt-border-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Cartels Attempting To Corrupt Border Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10699\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/2009\/08\/16\/mexico-sacks-border-officers-brings-in-the-army\/mexico_border_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10699\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10699\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mexico_border_2-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"Cartels attempting to corrupt border patrol officers\" title=\"mexico_border_2\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10699\" height=\"112\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mexico_border_2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mexico_border_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mexico_border_2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mecico US Border<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don&amp;apos;t have the money to catch all the corrupt agents, homeland security officials told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection&amp;apos;s Office of Internal Affairs, told a Senate homeland security subcommittee in Washington that only about one in 10 of the new hires for agency jobs are given polygraph tests, and of those, 60 percent are deemed unsuitable for employment.<\/p>\n<p>That means that many who joined the agency during the recent hiring boom and did not take polygraphs could have joined with corruption already in mind, Tomsheck said.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100311\/ap_on_re_us\/us_drug_war_border_corruption\">US Customs: Mexican cartels corrupt border agents &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/cb27feb2-384c-4153-ae78-8faede575305\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=cb27feb2-384c-4153-ae78-8faede575305\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don&amp;apos;t have the money to catch all the corrupt agents, homeland security officials told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday. James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection&amp;apos;s Office of Internal Affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[114,5543,3211,220,31,5544,1572,222,4308,1015,5508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17209,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206\/revisions\/17209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}