Thread: Outsourced passport work poses risk

Outsourced passport work poses risk
Bill Gertz

The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies — including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage — raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has found.

The Government Printing Office’s decision to export the work has proved lucrative, allowing the agency to book more than $100 million in recent profits by charging the State Department more money for blank passports than it actually costs to make them, according to interviews with federal officials and documents obtained by The Times.

The profits have raised questions both inside the agency and in Congress because the law that created GPO as the federal government’s official printer explicitly requires the agency to break even by charging only enough to recover its costs.

Lawmakers said they were alarmed by The Times’ findings and plan to investigate why U.S. companies weren’t used to produce the state-of-the-art passports, one of the crown jewels of American border security.

“I am not only troubled that there may be serious security concerns with the new passport production system, but also that GPO officials may have been profiting from producing them,â€

If Bush and "our" Congressional Leadership are not busy importing ILLEGALS to do jobs American Citizens "will not do" they are outsourcing work that they do not want American Citizens to do! Before long we will not be able to manufacture anything and depend on the rest of the world for our necessities and of course you know we can count on the rest of the world, it's always worked before!!

The Same thing will happen to the Real ID information.

Originally Posted by jp_48504

The Same thing will happen to the Real ID information.

DITTO, it is only a matter of time!!


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