21 April 2013 (19:28 UTC-07 Tango 20 April 2013)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

“It seems this manufacturer was willfully off the grid. This facility was known to have chemicals well above the threshold amount to be regulated under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act (CFATS), yet we understand that DHS did not even know the plant existed until it blew up.”-Bennie Thompson, House Committee on Homeland Security

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has some ‘splainin’ to do!  Turns out the fertilizer factory in West, Texas, was breaking state and federal laws regarding how much explosive ammonuim nitrate it was storing.

According to an unnamed government source, West Fertilizer had stockpiled 1350 times the legal reporting limits!

Reuters reporting that investigations revealed that the fertilizer plant had on hand at least 270 tons of the explosives, when Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards require that anytime such a facility goes over 400 pounds of ammonium nitrate it must be reported to DHS.

Records show the massive amount of ammonium nitrate was reported to DSHS, but not to DHS.  Apparently DSHS wasn’t worried about such a huge stockpile of chemicals.

And going by the above quote, Homeland Security officials are claiming they were never even told of the fertilizer factory’s existence!  Is this the real reason President Obama quietly declared a state of emergency in Texas?