Security Concerns About Passport System Extensive, Report Finds
"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 Washington Times reports in part one of a three part series. "The Netherlands-based company that assembles the U.S. e-passport covers in Thailand, Smartrac Technology Ltd., warned in its latest annual report that, in a worst-case scenario, social unrest in Thailand could lead to a halt in production. Smartrac divulged in an October 2007 court filing in The Hague that China had stolen its patented technology for e-passport chips, raising additional questions about the security of America's e-passports."
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Just when you think that U.S, Bureaucrats can't get any dumber, you discover that we are farming out the printing and preparation of passports to a 3rd World country. Who in Washington makes decisions like this.
The next thing you know we will be farming out to other countries the construction and manufacture of our military aircraft.
Throw out all of the idiots in Congress and start over.
IT`S TIME TO OUTSOURCE THESE USELESS, BRAINDEAD POLITICIANS...
HOW THESE MORONS KEEP GETTING RE-ELECTED IS JUST AMAZING TO ME...
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