terrorists trying to enter this country. but with so many technical glitches and logistical problems and after spending almost $672 million, the government apparently has nothing to show for it. the project was started in 2005 and was supposed to be done by 2011. joining me now, executive director of the secure border initiative network, matt borkowski in charge of the project. matt, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> what is the problem here? >> well, the problem here was that we attempted to put up fence. it's not really a fence. we attempted to put up a series of cameras and radars that we felt we could buy commercially. in other words, they're already available. you can buy them from the vendors, and you can put them up. and we also attempted to connect them, using computers, so that i could give somebody a computer monitor depiction of everything all of these cameras saw. we thought doing that was not going to be a particular challenge. and it turns out that it is a particular challenge. the cameras need to be tuned. the radars need to be tuned, and