Senators say US nuclear detection plan is flawed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is wasting time and money on its current plan to develop technology to detect nuclear material at U.S. borders, two senators said Wednesday.

Sens. Joseph Lieberman, an independent, and Susan Collins, a Republican, slammed the department for not having a strategic plan to develop critical technology that could prevent a nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S.

Congressional investigators have criticized the program since 2006. The Obama administration blames most of the program's problems on the Bush administration. But Lieberman and Collins say the current administration is not working fast enough to fix them.

"We're not …