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$5.8 Mil “Text Against Terror” Fails To Provide Any Tips
The U.S. government has blown nearly $6 million on an experimental “anti-terrorism” program in New Jersey that encourages the public to send tips via text message from their cellular phones.
Since it was launched in mid-2011, the federally-funded “Text Against Terror” project has produced no credible tips, according to a local newspaper report that reveals the feds have poured $5.8 million into the initiative. Police in New Jersey claim 307 tips have been texted so far and that includes people “testing the system.”
Of the 307 text messages, 71 “referred to something regarding homeland security,” according to the New Jersey police chief quoted in the story. The majority of the 71 texts were investigated, the chief says, and “eliminated as a cause for concern.” In other words, the costly program, funded with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) public awareness grant, is a cash cow that’s accomplished nothing.
The taxpayer dollars have paid for advertising time on local radio and television as well as fliers and ads on buses and trains. Other expenses include reserving a domain for unlimited texting capability. In a “rare instance” when a tip has required a follow-up, the New Jersey police chief says a state Joint Terrorism Task Force is available to get the job done. It includes state police, New Jersey’s transit and port authority police and the FBI.
News of this disturbing waste of public funds for an ineffective homeland security program comes on the heels of a U.S. Senate report blasting a huge post-9/11 counterterrorism program that’s received north of $300 million but hasn’t provided any useful intelligence. Even scarier is that DHS has covered up the mess from both Congress and the public, according to the bi-partisan investigators who conducted the lengthy probe.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 14th, 2012
Not a spare dime to protect our diplomats. Man do these commies excell at pissing our future away. Mitt needs to do a massive forensic audit of every last s.o.b. involved with this regime.
Whom
October 14th, 2012
Yeah but the important part is, some more of Dear Leader’s cronies got their hands on more public funds!
Mountain Dog
October 14th, 2012
Just another Scam.
Unneutral
October 14th, 2012
Cronyism, liberal dumbness, government redundancy, take your pick….what’s wrong with 911??
willie t
October 14th, 2012
wadn’t wasted at all… it went right into the hands of a lefty “small bidness man” – then about 30% will go back to the DNC where it belongs
besides it just doesn’t matter – it’s OPM
bob
October 14th, 2012
There is essentially no real terror threat.
Not on the scale where a text messaging tool would ever do any good.
Look at the terror “attacks” on the US (in this hemisphere) since 2001. I mean, really look into them.
Take out your tinfoil hat and bear with me.
How many of them were actual terrorist plots, and how many were CIA operations of some sort?
2 minutes on google result in some interesting food for thought – at the very least.
http://www.infowars.com/faisal-shahzad-portrait-of-a-patsy/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/09/underwear-bomber-working-for-cia
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/shoedoubts.html?q=shoedoubts.html
http://www.dailypaul.com/114582/fort-hood-was-a-false-flag-by-cia-mossad-hasan-is-the-patsy
http://www.infowars.com/a-deeper-look-at-the-dark-knight-rises-shooting-a-cia-black-op/
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=94&contentid=10101
marleenna1959
October 14th, 2012
How do they expect a measly $6 million to do any good? It should have been at least $6 billion.