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Gill already had been warned orally by the commission twice, when the commission’s inspector found the restaurant open past its mandated closing time this summer...
...stolen nuclear warhead--into the American heartland. "We don't even talk about what happens if something gets through," says Anderson. "Every day, we say we're going out there and stop everything." It's a far more serious business than when he signed on as a customs inspector in 1971, and his employment interview consisted of two questions: Do you have all your limbs? And when can you start? The agency's mission then was "protect the revenue," which means collect taxes...
...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...
...about spotting liars. He is a classic American character with a deep faith and a laconic style inherited from his coal-miner father. Colleagues saw zero change in him after Sept. 11. "Doing it over 30 years, he doesn't get rattled," says his friend Bill Wisman, chief inspector for passenger-vehicle operations at the bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "All I've seen in him," says his wife Linda, "is greater determination." On April 26, Linda awoke around 4 a.m. to find Ben sitting up talking on the phone. A suspicious briefcase had been left in the middle...
Today the inspectors wear radiation detectors so sensitive that they go off near anybody who has had a medical test using radioisotopes. They carry Glock semiautomatic pistols and are trained to deal with chemical and biological weapons. But there is no end to the number of hiding places in the trucks, vans and cars snaking across the bridge, each waiting for an inspector to play a 25-second game of Spot the Liar...