Wasteful Spending: TSA spent $77 million on bomb-sniffing dogs who can't detect explosives

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/wasteful-spending-watch-tsa-spent-77-million-bomb-sniffing

In this instance of government waste, it is especially evident that the TSA conducts almost no oversight of its costly puppy program. The report, some lines of which are redacted because they contain sensitive information, reveals that the TSA:

Does not know the number of canine teams it actually needs because it does not keep track of “capability gaps and operational goals.”

Is perhaps not sending the canine teams to the correct locations because they do not document allocation decisions.

Cannot figure out whether the canine teams are A) effective and B) cost-efficient.

Isn’t even sure if the security pups are being used properly because the agency doesn’t supervise how TSA manages its operations at different airports.

Finally, the report determines that the PSCs may not be able to detect all explosive devices, which is deeply unfortunate, considering their purpose.

Interdasting

https://twitter.com/DrLahiri2/status/1259825328505012224

>>9123080

PDF without Adobe: 17 Unredacting Manafort’s documents and recovering PDF versions

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/11/pdf-without-adobe-17-unredacting-manaforts-documents-and-recovering-pdf-versions/

Discovering hidden information in PDF documents can be incredibly easy. Take, for example, the response filed early in January to the special counsel’s allegations that Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors, which you can obtain from here. Open that document in my free PDF reader Podofyllin, and every single character which was been ‘redacted’ from it is clearly visible in its text view.

The reason for this is that the attempt to ‘redact’ the original PDF was performed using an open source tool developed jointly by Foxit and Google, PDFium, which doesn’t actually support true redaction at all. Instead, the person who edited the file drew black boxes over the text which they wanted to redact. Use a normal PDF viewer and it looks like the underlying text has gone, but in fact it’s still there, as revealed so simply by Podofyllin.

Anyone familiar with this?

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from article

Ezra Cohen-Watnick Returns to Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counternarcotics

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/11/ezra-cohen-watnick-returns-to-pentagon/

“There has been no greater advocate of President Trump’s agenda than Ezra Cohen. His extensive background in intelligence and continued service to his country are prime examples of the need to have capable individuals who are steadfast in their support of pro-American policies,” a former White House official told Breitbart News on background.

In his new capacity, he will focus on the fight against drug cartels and transnational criminal networks (TCNs) — a big priority of President Donald Trump’s. Trump recently directed the Pentagon to launch a counternarcotics operation to stop the flow of drugs across the U.S.’s southern border.

Cohen-Watnick will not only be focusing on drug cartels in Latin America but also on the larger TCNs that span the globe, including those used by Hezbollah and state-sponsors of terrorism such as Iran.