Security Tightened at Federal Government Buildings After Congressional Investigators Discover Major Breach
JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Officials in Washington are tightening security at the Pentagon, the FBI, and the Justice Department. The move comes after congressional investigators using phony I.D.s broke through security. CNN's justice correspondent Pierre Thomas joins us now. Pierre, how could this happen?</s>PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Well, Judy, these people could have walked in with bombs, guns, and weapons of mass destruction, and it happened primarily because of what's called professional courtesy, they posed as law enforcement officials therefore they were given the green light to walk right in. Now law enforcement officials are saying that this simply cannot stand, they cannot afford to let their own come in with their weapons. So now the Pentagon announced today that no longer will people be able to move without escort and they will also have to give up their weapons once they come to the Pentagon.</s>WOODRUFF: So real change in the method of operations there?</s>THOMAS: Major change in the method of operation because, as one source told me, this was a pretty major gap, it was a unique approach used by congressional investigators using the law enforcement sort of comradery against itself, but it worked.</s>WOODRUFF: All right, CNN's Pierre Thomas, thanks very much.