Michigan's border Homeland Security: dragons and gargoyles

[donsu]

Cameras aren't on lookout at border

Michigan never got its system for surveillance

http://www.freep.com/news/metro/bord10_20040710.htm

It was supposed to be a 24-hour border superhero, a sentry with eyes that never blinked, could see in the blackest night and could zoom in on objects miles away.

Able to detect body heat even on a warm summer day. On constant watch for terrorists, drug runners and illegal immigrants trying to sneak from Canada into Michigan.

But a year after officials expected the system to be up and running, a much-hailed high-tech network of surveillance cameras is still not installed along Michigan's border with Canada and at other locations along the northern border. And now federal investigators want to know why -- and whether millions of dollars in taxpayer money has been squandered.

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The administration is responsible for purchasing the cameras. The inspector general investigates criminal misconduct and audits financial contracts.

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A Connecticut-based company called International Microwave Corp. was awarded a $200-million government contract in 2002 as the only prime contractor to install the camera system along the northern border.
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that's a lot of "squandered" money.

bushgang theme song: suck, suck, suck that money down

let's see now, just who owns Microwave Corp.?