Costly virtual border fence in tatters

Source: LA Times

The Department of Homeland Security, positioning itself to cut its losses on a so-called invisible fence along the U.S.- Mexico border, has decided not to exercise a one-year option for Boeing to continue work on the troubled multibillion-dollar project involving high-tech cameras, radar and vibration sensors.

The result, after an investment of more than $1 billion, may be a system with only 53 miles of unreliable coverage along the nearly 2,000-mile border.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-invisible-fence-20101022,0,5546525.story

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department Thursday awarded Boeing Co. a $67 million contract to install a high-tech "virtual fence" along the Mexican border in Arizona.

The contract, which calls for cameras, sensors and even unmanned planes, is the first part of a multibillion-dollar government plan designed to reduce illegal entry along the 6,000 miles of the Canadian and Mexican borders.

The final price tag for the so-called Secure Border Initiative is unknown, but Homeland Security officials disputed published reports saying the cost could exceed $2 billion.

"What we are looking to build is a 21st century virtual fence," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said at a news conference announcing the contract award.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-09-20-border-cameras_x.htm

Nice work if you can get.........

of money spent on wasted projects, military, etc. is disgraceful.

But some poor schmuck makes 10 personal copies on a county-owned copier gets reamed on TV. Ridiculous.

are very good at keeping prisoners in.

Just sayin'.

This is sickening.

Damn!

we the people are such suckers.