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At least they are not afraid to say they were wrong. Five years after DHS’ Customs and Border Protection bureau absorbed 1,800 Pest Inspectors from the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, federal authorities on multiple levels are trying to after the Government Accountability Office last year low morale and decreased inspection rates. The department’s San Francisco office, for instance, managed to inspect “40 percent of the international passengers and pieces of cargo,” Scripps News Service . “In the three years after the reorganization, the inspection rate fell to 19 percent.” Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California and Representatives Dennis Cardoza (D-California) and Devin Nunes (R-California) have all introduced legislation on the issue. “They’re not doing an adequate job now of protecting us from pests and other things that could hurt our ag industry,” Nunesexplained.