Your tax dollars at work.
'Virtual Fence' Along Border To Be Delayed.
U.S. Retooling High-Tech Barrier After 28-Mile Pilot Project Fails
Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software.Yes. Good thinking. They flubbed it, so let's give 'em more cash. (Boeing) estimated in 2006 that it would spend $7.6 billion through 2011 to secure the entire 2,000-mile southern border...
"The total cost is not yet known," testified Richard M. Stana, the GAO's director of homeland security issues, because DHS officials "do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed, the materials to be used, or the cost to acquire the land."
Translation: a high tech money pit that resembles a gate.
