What if Some of this Waste Had Instead Gone to Passenger Intelligence IT?

Paul Wilkinson
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1 min readDec 28, 2009

We taped this story at the intelligence facility responsible for passenger manifest information. Given the focus of attention on the use of intelligence about passengers in recent days, the choice of location seems all too prescient. The reason we chose the location was to illustrate the point of the story: the homeland security budget process was broken and needed to be fixed. Alas, much work remains.

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