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...crap" - charge that he has inexplicably gone soft on Saddam. The fbi, Ritter claims, is even investigating him on suspicion of being an Iraqi agent. "I've never given Iraq a clean bill of health," he says angrily, noting that although he accepted the use of a car and driver during the recent trip to Baghdad, the Iraqis picked up no other expenses. "I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has constituted weapons - of - mass - destruction (WMD) capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact." Perhaps most awkward for the U.S. is Ritter...
...only thing that could be construed as an Iraqi expense is that they provided a vehicle that drove me from the hotel to the meetings with the government officials. I did not reimburse them for the gas used or the time of the driver...
Three National Guard soldiers open LIVE TO DRIVE's trailer and poke about his cargo as a customs inspector, his navy shirt defiantly crisp in the pounding heat, peers at the paperwork and peppers the man with questions. The driver answers stoically, in halting English. Scrap aluminum. Picked it up in Quebec, due at a recycler in Missouri. Heading down I-75, hoping to get there tonight. The inspector appraises the man's story and body language and waves him on for final processing...
...Anderson, 55, chief inspector for commercial operations at the Ambassador Bridge, is watching from about 15 ft. away. "Inspectors typically have 25 to 30 seconds to make a judgment about whether a driver is telling the truth," he says. "A lot of what we do is just common sense. It's looking for things that are out of place, a story that doesn't make sense, or if he's evasive or won't look you right in the eye." Since Sept. 11, the Customs Service has been on a Level One alert--the most rigorous inspection regimen...
...security and commerce have forced Customs and the major automakers to rush into service a paperless reporting system called the National Customs Automation Program (NCAP). General Motors, which developed the software, is sharing it with its rivals; the system transmits to customs computers advance information about trucks and drivers dispatched from Canada to the U.S. When the driver arrives at the inspection booth, he simply hands over a bar-coded document, gets scanned and, if everything matches, goes on his way. GM is experimenting with truck-mounted transponders to beam the data to the customs booth while the truck...