>> kroft: uh-huh. >> birkenfeld: i would say about 90%. >> kroft: did people tell you this was theirthey opened an account? >> birkenfeld: it was the unwritten rule. you didn't have to discuss it. people wouldn't fly all the way to switzerland to open accounts just because they wanted to declare their money. >> kroft: and as a private banker for u.b.s., birkenfeld would help his clients invest, spend and move their money. one example he told us about involved withdrawing cash from a customer's account, buying some diamonds in geneva, and then smuggling them into the u.s. for the client inside a toothpaste tube. birkenfeld claimed it was legal because the diamonds, he said, were worth less than $10,000 and didn't have to be declared at customs. if it was legal, why did you put them in a toothpaste tube? that's why... i'm having trouble with that. >> birkenfeld: oh, it was... it was just a way of carrying them so i wouldn't lose them. where would you put two diamonds? >> kroft: i think i'd put them in a money belt or i think i'd put them in a case. >> birkenfeld: it was a one time even

>> stana: no. >> kroft: and that's not all. the software had bugs, some of the equipment proved unreliable in the heat and high winds of the desert. components would break, and maintenance proved to be an issue. according to the new project director, mark borkowski, part of the problem was that boeing and his predecessors at homeland security thought they could get the job done with standard surveillance equipment. >> borkowski: we were going to go buy all this equipment that you can buy from vendors today. you can go... we call it "off the shelf," "commercial off the shelf." >> kroft: radio shack? >> borkowski: not quite. but, you know, people sell radars, people sell cameras, so not far off of that. the idea was that should have been a very simple thing to do-- you know, go put that on towers, plug it in together. it should work. >> stana: the cameras and the... and the radar, that's the blocking and tackling of the whole system. that's what detects and identifies what's on the screen. >> kroft: what have been some of the pro

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