'Virtual Fence' Along Border To Be Delayed

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Source: Washington Post

U.S. Retooling High-Tech Barrier After 28-Mile Pilot Project Fails

The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday.

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Though the department took over that initial stretch Friday from Boeing, authorities confirmed that Project 28, the initial deployment of the Secure Border Initiative network, did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S. Border Patrol

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GAO investigators said that Boeing's software could not process large amounts of sensor data. The resulting delays made it hard for operators in a Tucson command center 65 miles to the north to lock cameras on targets. Radar systems were also triggered inadvertently by rain and other environmental factors. Cameras had trouble resolving images at five kilometers when they were expected to work at twice that distance, Stana said.


Washington Post

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703747_2.html

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Move along, nothing to see here. Hardly nothing works but we are going to continue with our projected $7.6B spending.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Is this a Halliburton/Diebold joint venture?

:rofl:

[lumpy]

3. Boeing according to the article

More money down the tube

[EFerrari]

2. Reagan should have said "Sell us that wall!"

Has anyone read the report Amy Goodman did yesterday about the wall across the TX border? Homeland Security is buiding it across people's land but not if they are rich or Bush connected.

Holes in the Wall: Texas Border Wall Bypassing Wealthy Residents with Bush Admin Ties

With the Texas Democratic primary and caucus less than a week away, the Bush administration’s plan to build a wall along part of the southern border has suddenly become a campaign issue. After many landowners refused to give over their land for the eighteen-foot-high wall, the Department of Homeland Security began filing lawsuits against some homeowners. At the same time, the government is leaving large gaps to avoid building the wall on the property of wealthy residents, including those with ties to President Bush.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/27/holes_in_the_wall_texas_border

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5. And ... Chertoff Sues the University of Texas in Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

American Democracy vs. American Dictatorship

Chertoff Sues the University of Texas in Brownsville and Texas Southmost College in Attempt to Place Border Wall Through the “Heart of the Campus”

By Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.|Inside the Checkpoints: Commentary from the Rio Grande|February 9, 2008

Chertoff sues the University of Texas in Brownsville (UTB) (PDF) and Texas Southmost College (TSC), a classic case of American democracy vs. American dictatorship.

What kind of government lies and threatens, lies and bullies, lies and abuses its power, then lies and terrorizes its citizens? What kind of government systematically sues model citizens? What kind of government will use any form of force to intimidate and frighten those faithfully serving their community and their country? What kind of government would willfully commit illegal and unconstitutional acts to terrorize citizens on the pretext of national security?

Inside the Checkpoints

[EFerrari]

6. That's terrible. We can only hope that they're too incompetent

to actually carry this out. :grr:

[The Croquist]

4. This leaves just one more thing to his successor

Is there anything he can do right?

[flashl]

7. It seems the question will be ... What is left for his successor to administer?

The daily revelations remind me of a scene I witnessed on the beltway. First, I saw what appeared to be a late model car completely stripped with no tires. A few miles later, I saw an individual walking into the direction of the car with a gas can. Later, I learned, in the time that it took the driver to walk to a gas station and return to his car, it had been completed stripped.

That’s how I view this country, we are witnessing it being completely stripped. If indeed, the country has been stripped to the degree of that car, the task of the next administration will be far greater than mere restoration.

[The Croquist]

9. "It was his own damn fault!

"It was his own damn fault. He shouldn't have run out of gas!!!!!"

George W, Bush
02/28/2008

[damntexdem]

8. LOL!