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Quickly, is there any estimate of what percentage of what percentage of — what was the error rate?

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Quickly, is there any estimate of what percentage of what percentage of — what was the error rate?

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Secretary Chertoff: There’s not such a thing as an error rate. There are innocent hits. In other words, there are certain kinds of material that have natural radiation. And so, therefore, sometimes you get a container, you get a radioactive hit, and it’s an accurate hit, it turns out there’s an innocent explanation. So one of the advantages of pairing it up with the x-ray is it will allow us to separate some of the wheat from the chaff. Also, when we have hits, we have analysts who can take some of the information back — it’s electronically transmitted back to the lab. And there are ways to read it that allow us to separate what we know is benign types of radiation from questionable radiation. And again, if there’s a doubt, you resolve it by opening it up. So it’s not an error, the question is whether we’re hitting false positives. Question: If in doubt, pull it out; who then does the inspection? Secretary Chertoff: Inspection is done under the authority of the home country where the

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