{"id":1694,"date":"2005-07-01T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/homeland_ecurit\/"},"modified":"2005-07-01T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T15:26:20","slug":"homeland_ecurit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/07\/homeland_ecurit\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland $ecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"TSA contractor wasted millions, audit shows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8410241\/\">Your TSA at work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* $526.95 for one phone call from the Hyatt Regency O&#8217;Hare in Chicago to Iowa City.<br \/>\n* $1,180 for 20 gallons of Starbucks Coffee &#8212; $3.69 a cup &#8212; at the Santa Clara Marriott in California.<br \/>\n* $1,540 to rent 14 extension cords at $5 each per day for three weeks at the Wyndham Peaks Resort and Golden Door Spa in Telluride, Colo.<br \/>\n* $8,100 for elevator operators at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.<br \/>\n* $5.4 million claimed for nine months&#8217; salary for the chief executive of an &#8220;event logistics&#8221; firm that received a contract before it was incorporated and listed its address at a post office box.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All told, a federal audit &#8220;calls into question $303 million of the $741 million spent to assess and hire airport passenger screeners for the newly created Transportation Security Administration after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s funny how may Rightists nearly have a cow regarding the government &#8220;waste&#8221; when it comes to NPR and other cherished whipping boys, yet are silent when it comes to this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/07\/homeland_ecurit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Homeland $ecurity\"><p>Your TSA at work: * $526.95 for one phone call from the Hyatt Regency O&#8217;Hare in Chicago to Iowa City. * $1,180 for 20 gallons of Starbucks Coffee &#8212; $3.69 a cup &#8212; at the Santa Clara Marriott in California. * $1,540 to rent 14 extension cords at $5 each per day for three weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}