Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Do you remember that game? Children would play it and using their geography they would try to locate Carmen. If Carmen were a terrorist today, that would be hard to do. We have more security issues in the United States than the sieve in my kitchen.

We all know about the border issues along the Mexican border. Those are on the front page. What has been hidden in plain sight is the fact that U.S. passport covers with digital chips are being made overseas and that security is not very good.

The Government Printing Office outsourced the manufacture of e-passports because they couldn’t be made in the U.S. (in a pig’s eye) but they did not develop “security plans and procedures for ensuring that blank e-Passports – and their highly sought technologies – remain safe from terrorists, foreign spies, counterfeiters and other bad actors as they wind through an unwieldy manufacturing process that spans the globe and includes 60 different suppliers.”

In other words, our Government officials are once again out to lunch while the new e-Passports are available on the black market to people who don’t like us. Gee, instead of sealing the borders, we have made it possible for villains to come here and through government negligence we have made it harder to locate and identify them when they enter the country.

I know the government is moving the manufacture of these documents back to the United States, but why did they send them overseas in the first place? They were first manufactured overseas in 2006. The World Trade Center was bombed in 2001. We knew that we had security issues when it was done. This is like putting ice cream on the table before dinner and telling my children not to eat it and then leaving the room. What terrorist or spy could resist.

Heads should roll on this one.