The out-of-control security-industry complex strikes again!
 

What New York City Got for Nearly $1 Million: 19 Doors That Were Never Opened

By RUSS BUETTNER
They can detect everything from an ice pick to a small bomb, politely suggest that the owner depart and, should he refuse, confine him inside a sarcophagus of metal and bulletproof glass.

But 19 technologically advanced security doors that the city bought for nearly $1 million have spent the last five years gathering dust instead of daggers inside a Rikers Island warehouse.

They will soon be headed for top secret destinations abroad, in countries that are American allies in the war on terror, having been given away this month after three failed attempts to auction them off. But fully appreciating why the city decided to cut ties with the pricey doors requires first understanding the curious decisions, public recriminations and criminal charges that have marked their years in city custody.

In the middle of that tale is Bernard B. Kerik, the city’s former police and correction commissioner and onetime nominee to head the nation’s Department of Homeland Security, though there is no evidence he did anything illegal in connection with the doors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/ny...prod=permalink