http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cf ... 664d2cd08a
(This has a webcast)

This was a hearing held yesterday before a special subcommittee of the Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The title of the Hearing was: New Border War: Corruption of US Officials by Drug Cartels. Much of the discussion is about how they can tighten up internal security against agent corruption.

I am placing this link here because it is one more critical evidence that the Obama Administration's promise to secure our border is a joke. One witness witness cites 129 arrests of CBP officers since 2003. Earlier this year DHS Secretary Napolitano pronounced that the electronic protection measures on the border were not operable and potentially could be scrapped. The Administration also reduced funding for border operations.


The border security that Obama and DHS have promised is still years away. The shear volume of interdited shipments of contraband only indicate that there is still much more work that needs to be done. And as this hearing shows we cannot even trust our own agents.

Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The title of the Hearing was: New Border War: Corruption of US Officials by Drug Cartels. Much of the discussion is about how they can tighten up internal security against agent corruption.

Witnesses were:
* Kevin L. Perkins
Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice
* Thomas Frost
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
* James F. Tomsheck
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Internal Affairs
Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Agent Perkins cited 1600 convictions for corruption in border protection services among all levels of law enforcement. (29.30)