Homeland Security Spent $430M on Radios Its Employees Don’t Know How to Use
22nd November 2012
Only one of 479 DHS employees surveyed by the inspector general’s office was actually able to use the common channel, according to the report. Most of those surveyed—72 percent—didn’t even know the common channel existed. Another 25 percent knew the channel existed but weren’t able to find it; 3 percent were able to find an older common channel, but not the current one.
The investigators also found that more than half of the radios did not have the settings for the common channel programmed into them. Only 20 percent of radios tested had all the correct settings.
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Of course, as we all know, the real problem is that taxes are too low.