UGH: Signposts on the US Government’s Trail of IT Failures. “Large IT projects in agencies from the FBI to the Census Bureau spectacularly — and, it seems, regularly — crash and burn, much to taxpayers’ disgust. . . . It seems there are certain aspects of government culture that make IT failure more likely. It just may be that failure is built into the system.” From a civil-liberties perspective, perhaps this is a feature, not a bug.