Is Security at Military and CIA Bases Getting Better?

Has the USA learned anything about Perimeter Security in the Past Decade?


Case #1: The USS Cole -- a man in a small boat who has not been identified in any way approaches to within 10 yards of the USS Cole. He looks like he might be delivering vegetables. But actually his boat contains a bomb. Many US lives are lost.





Case #2 Ten years later a man approaches a CIA Camp in Afghanistan. He is unidentifed, but he is wearing the uniform of the Aghanistan Army. He's allowed into the camp. Under his uniform he's wearing an explosive vest. Many US lives are lost.





Now, you may be thinking, yes but why didn't you tell the government about perimeter security right after the USS Cole incident. I did, as a consultant to NCIS, at the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, I did.





Since that time the methods available for very reliable biometric identification have gotten cheaper, simpler and faster. They rely on the veins in the hand, which are just as distinctive as the iris of the eye, or the structure of the face.





That CIA camp in Afghanistan only had a few dozen people who were authorized to be in the camp at all. Let's say 100 people. Well, that data could be stored in .0000000001% of a chip, in a very small battery power machine. It's not a budget buster for the US government to get that done. With such a machine, and a single gate, there would be no need to speculate about somebody's identity based on their uniform. Any person gaining ingress into the camp would be positively identified. Total cost, amortized over say 10,000 hand scans, about 17 cents per scan.





Hillary's got $100 Billion to drop on the enviros at Copenhagen, but we can't find 17 cents to keep patriots and heros safe from harm. In 10 years we have learned nothing, nada, nihil, zip, zilch about perimeter security. We can't keep bombers off our planes, crashers out of White House dinner parties. We are hapless, lame, feckless.





We accept this because we are not very political people. Most of us just don't care. In a more mentally alert nation, like Switzerland for example, the kind of failures we routinely have would be corrected. Someone would take steps -- fixes would be put in place. If I gave my perimeter security presentation to the Swiss, they would have done something about it. Caring is actually important to getting things done.|||Current news sources are saying that the dude was being courted as an informant. From my perspective, this is an intelligence failure and thereby belongs at the feet of the Company. Harsh, I know.





But the fact remains that they have been in contact with this joker or had prior intel about him and they invited him on base, endangering not only themselves but the other servicemen and contractors on that FOB. Having his biometric data on a chip would have done nothing to save those officers. Seems that they were in such a rush to develop a possible humint source that some corners where cut and a proper background investigation was either waived or the area is such a black hole, they have no one in place who could have warned to this guys proclivities.





To me, the most damning condemnation will come when they release the details of how it is that he was allowed to circumvent base security. Whoever authorized that decision will bear the Ultimate responsibility.|||i dont think so even with new technology helping them people will be more relax because we got a new gadget over there that we are using and its more fool proof than the previous once we used. people there are not that very serious about security because they get bored with to much security. all of them are thinking of other things your only hope is that the enemy will be to intimidated to do baad things but if the enemy is as smart as a monkey and very determend and willing and bold then ur in trouble|||All that written above and you get the basic facts wrong ?





It wasn't an unidentified man wearing a Afghan army uniform.





The CIA invited the man to the camp , they wanted him to be an informant.





At least read enough that you know the basic facts, before you make a post.|||A man walks up to a crosswalk. He has the green light and walk sign so he steps out into the street. He gets run over by somebody who runs the red light.





Honestly, if you want to live in a ZERO RISK society go lock yourself up in a padded room somewhere and leave the rest of us out of your delusions.