Strategic Bullsh*t Initiative
No Goal -- No Good
Washington Post -- June 17
DHS backing off Mexico border fence
It was once an ambitious plan, to build a fence with the most sophisticated technology along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Originally expected to run about 655 miles, the troubled, multibillion-dollar project has now been reduced to a plan for 387 miles, and its designers have lowered its technical standards "to the point that... system performance will be deemed acceptable if it identifies less than 50 percent of items of interest that cross the border."
 Glenn Spencer -- American Border Patrol
In July of 2006 I predicted that the virtual fence project known as SBInet would fail, and I gave the reason. Now, four years and nearly a billion dollars later, the Governmental Accountability Office has concluded that the system doesn't work, mainly because it didn't define measurable goals.
"Without a meaningful understanding of SBInet costs and benefits, DHS lacks an adequate basis for knowing whether the initial system solution on which it plans to spend at least $1.3 billion is cost-effective." (See PDF Doc -- Page 26)
Two years ago I went into detail as to just how the DHS was avoiding accountability for the system. A careful reading of the recent GAO Report shows that I was right.
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