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Crony-ridden CGI Federal---another of Ohaha's cockamamie wealth-redistribution scams. The Canadian company got a billion tax dollars to build the abominable Obamacare web site.

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Taxpayers demand the mobilization of the Bank Secrecy Act---in which banks are required to establish, implement and maintaprograms designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of govt fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes. The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, govt fraud, terrorism, tax evasion, or other unlawful activities.

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Toni Townes-Whitley, Senior Vice President at "CGI Federal" for Civilian Agency programs, is Princeton Class of 1985---same dumbed-down class as Michelle Obama. Both are members of Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

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NOTE CGI, the designer of the Obamacare website and computer system, is the parent company of Stanley, Inc. At the latter two employees, along with an employee of Analyst Corp, were investigated WRT State Dept passport breaches involving passports of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama.

THIS JUST IN News broke last night that Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, Laura works for CGI Federal (she's wedded to Canadian native Tony Balkisoon), whose dad is a Canadian MP).

Laura Jarret and hubby. More on Balkisoon's dad below.

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WIKI---Bas Balkissoon---RESIDES IN TORONTO---MEMBER Ontario Liberal Party---Tahay, spouse, three children

Born 1952 (age 60–61)-- Trinidad and Tobago, Indian ancestry

Bas Balkissoon (born ca. 1952) is a politician in Toronto, Ontario. Formerly the Toronto city councillor representing Ward 41 in northeast area of Scarborough, Balkissoon won election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on November 24, 2005 as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Scarborough—Rouge River.

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, and of Indian descent, Balkissoon rose to prominence as the head of Scarborough Homeowners Alliance For Fair Taxes, an organization that challenged the province's property assessment system. In 1988, he ran for Scarborough city council in what was then Ward 13.

He currently serves as Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committee of the Whole House (2011–present) and as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Community and Social Services (2010–present).

After O blamed everybody but his sainted grandmother for the massive screwup....the floundering admin announced former White House budget director is now the abominable web site's "fixer"......

IT GETS BETTER---NY MAGAZINE REPORT Silicon Valley techies say the botched healthcare.gov rollout was emblematic of what's called "state-of-the-art incompetence" .......the dated, old-school approach to the site's development, which relies on a management system known as the "waterfall model," and whose back-end database appears to run on Oracle software, had all but ensured it would run over-budget, late, and riddled with technical problems.

You could have taken any SV engineer and asked them, 'I have a friend — don't mention the government — who's thinking about a five-year, $100 million Oracle installation, and they've hired an outsourced contractor (crony-ridden CGI-Canada)to build it for them. It's going to be proprietary, hosted in their own data center, Oracle-based, with waterfall management."

" What are the odds that it's working on Day One of the rollout? "

And everyone in SV will tell you: zero percent.

Silicon Valley's emerging suspicion of government, see the botched rollout as symptomatic of the government's ham-fisted approach to technology.

The healthcare.gov site is "only the latest episode in a string of information technology debacles by the federal government," wrote Clay Johnson and Harper Reed, two programmers with political pasts (Johnson was Howard Dean's lead programmer in 2004; Reed was the brain behind Obama's 2012 digital campaign) in a Times op-ed.

The pair went on: This latest failure is frustrating for us to watch ... We must find a fix to the federal procurement process that spares the government’s technology projects from the self-inflicted wounds of signing big contracts whose terms repeatedly and spectacularly go unmet.

The White House has promised that a "tech surge" of the "best and the brightest," including from Silicon Valley, has been brought in to repair the health-care site. But nobody knows, or is telling anyone, who those people actually are.

Contractors grilled at a congressional hearing this week wouldn't name names, and several tech executives questioned yesterday said they had no inside information on the makeup of the government's emergency coder team.

Verizon has reportedly been tapped to help with the revamp, but the extent of its involvement isn't known. Former budget official Jeffrey Zients is overseeing the rescue, but since he's not a known coder, his role is limited to managing the project.

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(In a conference call, Zients predicted that the site would "work smoothly" by the end of November.) But the episode has confirmed the suspicions of many in Silicon Valley that the government's infrastructure, even on key projects, relies too heavily on outdated legacy systems and could be run more efficiently by those inside their own camp.