$20M virtual fence (border) scrapped. O.K.,Fine. Followed by $860M contract for Boeing

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Just when you thought that the dictionary entry for "boondoggle" consisted of graphics for ShrubCo in Iraq, CHEENEEco, and HBR, it proved to flash alternately with "border security": Neverending recruitment of border patrol personnel, palatial headquarters, dune buggies, horses, river boats, buying off private land for fencing, NASCAR advertising vehicles for recruitment, concrete barriers for ports of entry, RFID documents with reader machines that don't work, and who knows what else...


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24268411/

$20 million 'virtual' border fence scrapped

Electronic system in southern Arizona fails to properly alert guards

updated 3:42 a.m. CT, Wed., April. 23, 2008
TUCSON, Ariz. - A $20 million prototype of the government's highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border is being scrapped because the system is failing to adequately alert Border Patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.

The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence built by The Boeing Co. The fence consists of nine electronic surveillance towers along a 28-mile section of border southwest of Tucson.

Boeing is to replace the so-called Project 28 prototype with a series of towers equipped with communications systems, new cameras and new radar capability, officials said. ....

$860 million contract

Boeing was awarded an $860 million contract to provide the technology, physical fences and vehicle barriers. ....

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http://notexasborderwall.com/