Saturday, January 26, 2008

Anti-Terror Profiteering

A post-9/11 program aimed at turning America's truckers into anti-terror highway patrolmen, has been deemed to be "wasteful".

“Our audit reveals how trucking security was outsourced, without oversight, to lobbyists who spent more on overhead and marketing than on actually training truck drivers to improve security,” said Lautenberg, who joined the House Homeland Security Committee in requesting the inspector general’s report.

  Politico

Well, Ms. Condoleezza Rice might say, "I don't think anybody could have predicted...."


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