Wolfstrike
Gold Member
- Jan 12, 2012
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The problem with our debt is we have too many government agencies costing money, and in turn spending and wasting money.
The government passed this Department of Homeland Security crap under the guise that they were going to stop towelheads from coming here and planting bombs. The truth is the DHS doesn't care about any of that, they're just a massive surveillance organization that's involved with everything, including work permits and home mortgages ....with a 100 billion dollar budget 10 times larger than the CIA
How can they big a security force for the USA when they have no intention of sealing the boarder?
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Criticism[edit]
See also: Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina
The Department of Homeland Security has received substantial criticism over excessive bureaucracy, waste, fraud, ineffectiveness and lack of transparency. Its information sharing centers have been accused of violating American civil liberties and targeting American citizens as potential threats to national security.
Excess, waste, and ineffectiveness[edit]
The Department of Homeland Security has been dogged by persistent criticism over excessive bureaucracy, waste, ineffectiveness and lack of transparency. Congress estimates that the department has wasted roughly $15 billion in failed contracts (as of September 2008[update]).[56] In 2003, the department came under fire after the media revealed that Laura Callahan, Deputy Chief Information Officer at DHS with responsibilities for sensitive national security databases, had obtained her bachelor, masters, and doctorate computer science degrees through Hamilton University, a diploma mill in a small town in Wyoming.[57] The department was blamed for up to $2 billion of waste and fraud after audits by the Government Accountability Office revealed widespread misuse of government credit cards by DHS employees, with purchases including beer brewing kits, $70,000 of plastic dog booties that were later deemed unusable, boats purchased at double the retail price (many of which later could not be found), and iPods ostensibly for use in "data storage".[58][59][60][61]
A 2015 inspection of IT infrastructure found that the department was running over a hundred computer systems whose owners were unknown, including Secret and Top Secret databases, many with out of date security or weak passwords. Basic security reviews were absent, and the department had apparently made deliberate attempts to delay publication of information about the flaws.[62]
The government passed this Department of Homeland Security crap under the guise that they were going to stop towelheads from coming here and planting bombs. The truth is the DHS doesn't care about any of that, they're just a massive surveillance organization that's involved with everything, including work permits and home mortgages ....with a 100 billion dollar budget 10 times larger than the CIA
How can they big a security force for the USA when they have no intention of sealing the boarder?
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Criticism[edit]
See also: Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina
The Department of Homeland Security has received substantial criticism over excessive bureaucracy, waste, fraud, ineffectiveness and lack of transparency. Its information sharing centers have been accused of violating American civil liberties and targeting American citizens as potential threats to national security.
Excess, waste, and ineffectiveness[edit]
The Department of Homeland Security has been dogged by persistent criticism over excessive bureaucracy, waste, ineffectiveness and lack of transparency. Congress estimates that the department has wasted roughly $15 billion in failed contracts (as of September 2008[update]).[56] In 2003, the department came under fire after the media revealed that Laura Callahan, Deputy Chief Information Officer at DHS with responsibilities for sensitive national security databases, had obtained her bachelor, masters, and doctorate computer science degrees through Hamilton University, a diploma mill in a small town in Wyoming.[57] The department was blamed for up to $2 billion of waste and fraud after audits by the Government Accountability Office revealed widespread misuse of government credit cards by DHS employees, with purchases including beer brewing kits, $70,000 of plastic dog booties that were later deemed unusable, boats purchased at double the retail price (many of which later could not be found), and iPods ostensibly for use in "data storage".[58][59][60][61]
A 2015 inspection of IT infrastructure found that the department was running over a hundred computer systems whose owners were unknown, including Secret and Top Secret databases, many with out of date security or weak passwords. Basic security reviews were absent, and the department had apparently made deliberate attempts to delay publication of information about the flaws.[62]
