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By G.W. Schulz - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's recent surprise decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system -- the third attempted since 1997 -- raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. As part of a broad illegal immigration crackdown called the Secure Border Initiative, a seamless "virtual fence" launched in 2005 was supposed to be up and running by last year. Among other things, the project known as SBInet called for a vast surveillance system along the 2,000-mile Southwestern ...
GAO: In Afghanistan's Counter-Drug Campaign, the Police Are a Problem
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe other war in Afghanistan isn't going all that well, either. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, reports Tuesday that almost half of the new police recruits test positive for drug use. That's not good, considering that the police are in charge of the eradication of poppies, whose golf ball-size pods of sap are refined into raw heroin. At any rate, the number of police users and addicts is probably understated, according to the State Department. "Many recruits who tested negative for drugs have shown opium withdrawal symptoms later in their ...
Bernanke Calls for Audit of Fed's AIG Bailout
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Jan. 19) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today asked the investigative arm of Congress for a "full review" of the government's bailout of insurer AIG. Bernanke's letter to the Government Accountability Office amounts to tacit recognition that a growing furor over AIG, the poster child for financial institutions that were too big to fail, has put the Fed on the defensive – and at a crucial moment. An effort is under way in Congress to curtail the Fed's autonomy, and Bernanke's own renomination, while likely, remains up in the air. Bernanke noted the Fed reports to ...
Opinion: Stuck at the Airport? Aim Your Frustrations at Washington
By not in system - AOL NewsLM Otero, AP Planes line up at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 (Nov. 20) -- Thursday morning's air traffic control meltdown, which delayed flights for nearly four hours, wasn't the first time this has occurred. In August 2008, there was a similar failure, with similar delays. And there were two other outages this September. The big question is why these delays keep happening. Early Thursday, the Salt Lake City system that handles flight plan processing for air traffic controllers broke down, and the other center in Atlanta couldn't handle the workload by ...
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