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Bush Presiding Over a Hollow State

Naomi Klein / Peninsula On-line:
"WE DIDN’T WANT TO GET STUCK with a lemon." That's what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said to a House committee last month. He was referring to the "virtual fence" planned for the US borders with Mexico and Canada. If the entire project goes as badly as the 28-mile prototype, it could turn out to be one of the most expensive lemons in history, projected to cost $8bn by 2011. Boeing, the company that landed the contract – the largest ever awarded by the Department of Homeland Security – announced last week that it will finally test the fence after months of delay due to computer problems.

Posted by Editor at October 29, 2007 01:09 AM