Friday, December 29, 2006
Dept of Homeland Insecurity fails again
And for the second time in recent weeks the vessel of their failure was the Coast Guard. This time they were trying to create a traffic control system similar to that used in aviation.
The Coast Guard installed long-range surveillance cameras, coastal radar and devices that automatically identify approaching vessels to help search out possible threats.So a lot of Republican cronies were enriched for selling junk to the government. Our tax dollars continue to be pissed away on grandiose failures. In the real world, heck even in the corporate world, this level of failure would get you fired. In Bushsylvania DC they are probably already engraving Chertoff's Medal of Freedom.
But the radar, it turns out, confuses waves with boats. The cameras cover just a sliver of the harbor and coasts. And only a small fraction of vessels can be identified automatically.
Officials acknowledge the limited progress that the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard have made toward creating a viable defense here in Miami or at harbors nationwide against a maritime attack, despite the billions of dollars invested since 2001.
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