.45 versus .40 - Interesting ICE & SIGs article

'bout time they started using real guns.  I trust my .45s now and did back in the badge days...

Original Message  From: baja Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Debbie Schlussel: EXCLUSIVE

Fleecing of America: Costly ICE Switch to Sig Sauer Guns Tied to Sexual Relationship

By Debbie Schlussel

Yesterday, I mentioned that Department of Homeland Security-approved security technology will often have a lot to do with who is sleeping with whom.

And I wasn't making that up.  Over the last several years, I've gotten many verified complaints from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and personnel, about various contracts that ICE signs for costly, less effective equipment and other items, merely because the purchaser or deciding party at ICE was "dating" (euphemism) the salesman at the company.  There are a lot of items on which ICE has spent your tax dollars--from computer programs to the company that moved ICE to its current headquarters to the guns--all of which ICE has chosen either because of nepotism or sex and not because they were the best or least expensive items sought.

ICE Switch from Glock to Sig Sauer Dangerous, Tied to Sex 

Some of this involves ICE official, Theresa Bertucci--whose whole family now seems to work for use (and who improperly used ICE police to guard the important American site of . . . her brother's funeral). Bertucci made sweetheart deals with a company called Bearing Point.

But, now, ICE agents tell me that they are being forced to switch to a cumberson Sig Sauer gun (from smaller Glocks) because the ICE employee who made the decision was sleeping with the Sig Sauer salesman. And it could endanger ICE agents, not to mention make it easier for illegal aliens to "make" them. Here's what ICE agents are telling me about why they must now transition to the Sig Sauer as their primary sidearm:

We are currently transitioning from our Legacy (INS or U.S. Customs Service) weapons to the Sig Sauer P229R and this must be completed by end of this month.

We can't understand why this is happening, except that we've been hearing that the Sig Sauer contract was obtained fraudulently as a former female ICE employee was sleeping with the guy from Sig Sauer, and that allegedly that ICE person was indicted for fraud.

The Sig Sauer is a much bigger in size weapon, ironic that we wear plain clothes during work. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents use the Glock--the one I carry. I was a U.S. Customs Agent, and this was our weapon, which ICE said was no good. It's funny that even CBP carries the smaller weapon and they are uniformed. Since we are not, a bigger weapon--the Sig Sauer--will stick out, and illegal aliens and other criminals will spot us and our guns.

ICE has given us just one day to learn this new weapon and qualify at the range. One eight hour day. Yet, in the U.S. Customs Service Academy (before ICE), they gave us about five months to learn how to use our current weapon. This is unbelievable. There are many ICE agents failing and having their guns pulled. Why ICE is only giving us one day to learn is beyond me. Talk about liability. Wait until the criminal defense attorneys and trial lawyers start using this in court.

Another ICE disaster.

Yes, that's ICE, where nepotism, cronyism, and sex dominate--not protecting us against illegal aliens and terrorist arms smuggling.

It's sad that this is happening, but even sadder is that nepotism and sleeping around is unfortunately the reason why a lot of things happen at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

As I've noted on this site, the acting head of the agency, John P. Torres,ignored federal hiring rules and ICE and Homeland Security procedures and set up rubber-stamping committees so he could hire his unqualified extramarital girlfriend to get a top ICE Special Agent job.

He set the atmosphere for this kind of abuse at ICE, and got promoted for doing so. And until he and Ms. Bertucci--they are the top two people at ICE until the new ICE secretary is confirmed--are disciplined for this behavior, American taxpayers will continue to be abused by these two proud high school grads (well, actually, Bertucci got her GED) running the Department of Homeland Security's largest law enforcement agency.

At ICE, it's not what you know. It's with whom you're exchanging bodily fluids. (Attention, Terrorists . . . .)

Posted by Debbie on March 11, 2009 12:44 PM to Debbie Schlussel

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