The New York Time’s Julia Preston chronicles the Department of Homeland Security’s insistence that Boeing’s $133 million contact to create a virtual fence on the Mexican border went just fine. DHS officials say that while the fence can’t extend across all 2,000 miles of the border, a 28-mile pilot project in Arizona passes muster. But the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s independent auditing arm, says something different: Boeing’s design “resulted in a project that did not fully meet user needs.” The GAO says that the rush to produce 21^st century security technology has resulted in 20^th century problems like cameras perpetually out of focus.  Read Preston here.

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