virtual fence is a virtual disaster, huge waste of time and money, tied up in bureaucracy. and a bloated contract between the department of homeland security and boeing. they both apparently bungled the project and tonight we're keeping them honest. let's take a look at the plan. boeing got the contract to build this virtual fence in september of 2006. according to a report by the gao, the government accountability office, just three months later the department of homeland security said by the end of 2009 the entire northern and southern western borders of the u.s., a total of 6,000 miles would be covered by the fence. late in 2008 that projection was scaled back, forgetting about the northern border for a while and the new goal was to have 656 miles of the southern border completed by mid 2011. well, here's what has actually been accomplished to date. a handful of cameras in the great lakes area and two small sections totalling 53 miles. 53 miles of virtual fence in arizona and even that is said to be not working all that well.