The Department of Homeland Security's Unlimited "Priorities" Yesterday's New York Times story on the Department of Homeland Security's promiscuous "National Asset Database" is custom made for satire.
An Amish popcorn company, the Groundhog Zoo in Pennsylvania, a kangaroo conservation center, literally some beach somewhere "at the end of the street," all listed in THE government database of critical infrastructure and key resources, a list that just also happens to exclude the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building. "We don't find it embarrassing" at all, the DHS spokesman responded to an internal Inspector General's report on the database. The Department pulled out all the patent bureaucratic answers: It is still too early in the process to assess the database, the "states" provided "quirky totals" that still need to be double checked, with more time and more money, we'll produce an even bigger, better list. < - > http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/07/the_department_of_homela nd_sec_1.html _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list [email protected] https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
