In testimony submitted to the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Ginger McCall, director of EPIC’s Open Government Project, stated that “the agency is monitoring constantly, under very broad search terms, and is not limiting that monitoring to events or activities related to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or manmade disasters….The DHS has no legal authority to engage in this monitoring.”The main thing I'm steamed about is the fact that DHS is paying a contractor over $11 million to do this monitoring. I'd have been happy to do it for $5 million.
So, does this count as criticism? I know this does.
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Pretty sensitive bunch of bureaucrats, aren't they? It sounds like they have a guilty conscience.
DHS should not even exist as an agency, as far as I'm concerned.
Think that will get their attention?
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Deborah Leigh said...What do you expect from the folks that consider six ounces of toothpaste in a soft plastic tube to constitute a threat?
Five million, you say? Paco, I'd do it for a mil. How many pairs of jammies do you need?
They acknowledge that they have no legal authority to destroy your privacy yet there is no calls for any of these people to be fired! Just how can that be?
The government counts millions like we count dollar bills. That's just like you paying a contractor $11 for a job. They didn't even think twice about that amount.
Perhaps this counts...
http://tinyurl.com/7lulsnw
It might, Richard. It might.
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