Border Tech is Faulty At Best

You have to admit at least one thing about the much maligned "Minuteman Project." It is drawing media scrutiny back onto border and immigration issues, after a long, long period of inattention after 9/11. Consider this story about the automated technology along our border which was so badly installed and maintained that criminal charges may be filed!

A critical network of cameras and sensors installed for the U.S. Border Patrol along the Mexican and Canadian borders has been hobbled for years by defective equipment that was poorly installed, and by lax oversight by government officials who failed to properly supervise the project's contractor, according to government reports and public and industry officials...Many irregularities were documented in a scathing GSA inspector general's report, released in December, which cited millions of dollars in potential overcharges by the contractor, International Microwave Corp. (IMC), as well as the record of U.S. officials paying for work never performed.

While I am not encouraged that it is a CT-based firm getting the criticism, it is good to finally see the media taking border control issues seriously. Until we do, we have a major weakness in our approach to combating terror and terrorists.