there's plenty of blame to go around on all sides. first of all, this was a program that came in sort of suddenly and unexpectedly on the part of the executive branch. president bush was pushing for comprehensive immigration reform and congress insisted on a greater enforcement package which included this fence. so it came at the last minute. it was put on the bill, the president signed the bill. so there was not an office set up to do the oversight. there was not a good, clear written statement of the requirements that boeing was to fulfill, and that put a big burden on the contractor, who took off the self-technologies trying to reach some milestones. and it failed. and so there was -- later there was the oversight it really required both in the executive branch and far more oversight that it required from congress. >> congresswoman sanchez, it is amazing this thing which has cost so much money and which had been talked about and trumped up by so many different presidents and politicians over the years that when they scuttle it they basically are announcing this late on a friday afternoon, it
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