BEWARE the FALSE-FLAG, Americans!!!!
"Bush administration efforts to develop a global approach for thwarting potential detonation of nuclear bombs or dirty weapons in the United States."
"Estimated cost rises for border monitors" by Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post | June 29, 2008
WASHINGTON - The cost to put a new kind of radiation monitor in place at borders and ports across the country would be far more than the Department of Homeland Security initially told Congress, according to budget documents and interviews with officials.
The department's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office said in a report two years ago that the monitors would cost more than $500,000 each to buy and deploy. On the basis of that report, Congress allowed the office to move ahead with a $1.2 billion plan to begin deploying the devices.
Now, the nuclear detection office estimates that the total cost for each machine will work out to at least $778,000. The office said it needs almost $68 million "for the procurement and deployment" of 87 machines for one portion of the project, according to budget documents.
Are you happy paying for all this shit based on a DAMNABLE LIE, 'murka?
That's YOUR TAX $$$$!!!
A spokesman for the nuclear detection office said the new cost estimates appear higher because they include current expenses to deploy the machines, such as infrastructure construction, calibration of the machines' software, and labor.
Spokesman Russ Knocke said Capitol Hill was advised from the beginning that there would be additional costs for deployment of the machines, known as advanced spectroscopic portal monitors, or ASPs.
Like we have nothing better to spend this money on, right?
The Midwest is under water and the West is burning up, but we need nuke detectors at the borders just in case "Al-CIA-Duh" smuggles in a nuke bomb, huh?
Here's a nuclear explosion for you: PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTT!!!!
Some officials familiar with the program said the cost to buy and deploy the ASPs could climb even higher.
The cost issues are the latest wrinkle for a program that has been described by the Bush administration as vital to homeland security but that has been delayed repeatedly after GAO auditors and some lawmakers questioned its management and the effectiveness of the machines. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee expects to address some of those issues in a hearing next month on Bush administration efforts to develop a global approach for thwarting potential detonation of nuclear bombs or dirty weapons in the United States.
At the request of homeland security committee chairman Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, Representative Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, and other legislators, GAO auditors are continuing to analyze the cost estimates because the auditors question the reliability of the projections. A GAO report on the auditors' analysis of the costs is expected in August.
"Congress and the Department of Homeland Security are trying to make America safer from a nuclear terrorist attack. To do that, we need to make sure that we are building the right kind of nuclear detection defenses and that we are building them the right way," Lieberman said. "Part of that entails making sure we use realistic estimates of what detection technologies are going to cost."
Yeah, we know what this boondoggle is meant to do, Joe, and we ain't fooled no more!
And here it is SEVEN YEARS after 9/11 and this shit still ain't on line, etc, etc?
Sigh!
The auditors questioned whether the expense was worth it, in part because the ASPs are significantly more expensive than monitors now in use, and it was not clear that the ASPs perform significantly better.
Of course the expense isn't worth it; it is ALL BASED on an INSIDE JOB LIE!!!!
Those findings spurred lawmakers to require Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to personally certify ASPs' performance before the plan could move forward.
Last year, the auditors raised other questions about the nuclear detection office's ASP testing. They contended that the tests were flawed because manufacturers of the monitors were allowed to conduct dress rehearsals and calibrate their machines in anticipation of testing, which auditors said inappropriately enhanced the monitors' performance. That testing was undertaken to generate data for Chertoff's certification decision.
So they RIGGED the CERTIFICATION TESTS, huh?
I want to know WHEN the American public is going to STOP EATING SHIT and allowing these LOOTERS to RAPE THEM?!?!
In November, after field testing exposed problems with the ASPs, Chertoff decided that the machines did not operate well enough for his certification and needed more work.
Since then, the nuclear detection office has been preparing new tests, with the goal of securing certification from Chertoff in September or October, said a spokesman for the office.--MORE--"
Yeah, just keep trying so you can TOSS TAXPAYER $$$ at this OUTRAGE!!
Please, Americam, get your head out of that bowl of shit!
