Passports Outsourced To Foreign Companies Bring Profits But Risk Security

I heard a News report about this the other day, and typed in "Passports outsourced to foreign companies" and got this story as the first hit. This is the kind of insanity that will destroy this nation, and we need to hold someone accountable for this breach of trust and security.

The Washington Times story says:

The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies — including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage — raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has found.

The Government Printing Office's decision to export the work has proved lucrative, allowing the agency to book more than $100 million in recent profits by charging the State Department more money for blank passports than it actually costs to make them, according to interviews with federal officials and documents obtained by The Times.

The profits have raised questions both inside the agency and in Congress because the law that created GPO as the federal government's official printer explicitly requires the agency to break even by charging only enough to recover its costs.

Lawmakers said they were alarmed by The Times' findings and plan to investigate why U.S. companies weren't used to produce the state-of-the-art passports, one of the crown jewels of American border security.

With people this Damned Dumb, it must be by "sheer luck" that terrorists have not hit us again, and with practices like this, we are surely going to run out of luck at some point. You just want to shout "What The Hell Were You Thinking??!" at these idiots "in charge"of our security!!

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