WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country, including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck, is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal grounds.

"We're seeing the near collapse of the Federal Protective Service," said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia, who leads the congressional subcommittee that oversees federal buildings.

A preliminary GAO report contained several shocking findings:

• A man died at a vacant federal complex in Kansas City, Missouri, and his body was not found for three months.

• Twenty-two guns were stolen from a federal building in Atlanta, Georgia. A private security guard employed at the building was convicted of participating in the theft.

• A surveillance trailer with $400,000 worth of high-tech equipment was stolen from the parking garage of a federal building in Los Angeles, California.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/14/federal.security/index.html

I foresee the day when the entire apparatus of the kwan government becomes a 'soft' target.