Where’s the Outrage?

Millions Billions of dollars were paid out by Homeland Security for tons of items but we got little or nothing in return.

• $24 billion for the Coast Guard’s “Deepwater” program that “turned into a fiasco that has set new standards for incompetence, and triggered a Justice Department investigation”
• $2 billion loss on the SBInet “virtual fence” border program
• $1.3 billion on the US-VISIT program which was never implemented
• $600 million for border radiation scanners that don’t work
• The report also uncovered a pile of smaller abuses: “DHS purchased iPods for “data storage,” dog booties for hurricane recovery and designer rain jackets for munitions training, only to learn the iPods were lost, the booties unused and the firing range closed during rain.”

Crew has the rest of the story.

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