Washington’s Park Police bombed on a terrorism test on the second anniversary of 9-11 when the Office of Inspector General planted a mock dirty bomb at the Washington Monument. After it went undetected, they even moved it from the rear of the obelisk to be closer to a security checkpoint where tourists line up to enter the attraction. —Washington Post . I also heard a radio report about Immigration and Nationalization batting a perfect .000 recently in detecting a significant number of mock infiltrators from the OIG presenting at various ports of U.S. entry with clumsy home-PC forged identity documents. [Oh, but it must have been before they instituted the fantastic and much-heralded fingerprinting-and-photographing regimen!] But, predictably, reaction will lean in the direction of finger-pointing at the culprits in INS, the National Park Service, or whatever agency du jour has been embarrassed, rather than examining the essential futility of our paranoiac approach to ‘homeland security’.