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Beto O'Rourke: For Ms. Gambler, one of the memories that I think looms large for this committee and certainly for me in making any…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2013
For Ms. Gambler, one of the memories that I think looms large for this committee and certainly for me in making any decision on a biometric exit system was our failure with SBInet, where we spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a border security technology boondoggle, which is really a homeland security contractors gone wild, where they were defining the scope and running the project, and it didn't make our country any safer, and it made us hundreds of millions of dollars poorer as a result.
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Beto O'Rourke
Democratic · Texas

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O'Rourke reflects on past failures in border security technology investments.

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