Don't try this at work: smuggling pepper spray into your federal office.

Federal Drive with Tom Temin

A new chapter in a long-running story. It's too easy for the wrong people to sneak the wrong things into federal buildings. The Federal Protective Service provides the mostly contracted guards. The Government Accountability Office did what you might call a pressure test … to see if dangerous items could get past them. The results show there's work to do. Here with the details, the G-A-O's director of physical infrastructure issues, Dave Marroni.

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