what i'm telling you is that we're going to have a border that is smart and secure. >> what we're looking to build is a virtual fence, a 21st century virtual fence. >> we've got to have stronger border surveillance and security. that is probably going to be more of a combination of virtual borders, virtual patrols. >> well, that was then-candidate obama on the campaign trail. so why has the virtual fence turned into virtual unreality? too many promises from boeing, not enough oversight. this is from a gao report on the fence which homeland security calls the security border initiative network or sbinet. dhs has not effective live managed its prime contractor, that would be boeing, thus resulting in costly reworking contributing the sbinet's well chronicles history of not delivering promised capabilities and benefits on the time and budget. they stand by their word, in part their statement reads