by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday stated that “11 legacy IT systems at a total of 10 agencies, including two at the Department of the Treasury, and one each at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the departments of Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture” had to immediately be replaced because these computer network systems were “between 23 years old (at the Interior Department) and 60 years old (at the Defense Department).”

Are you kidding me?? And yet the federal government through many of these same agencies is spending $billions on developing AI.

As I reported recently, tens of thousands of people are being laid off right now in the Technology sector, not because AI is replacing their jobs, but because SPENDING on AI projects is cutting out budgets for other technology projects. See:

Has the AI Apocalypse Arrived? Tens of Thousands Being Laid Off in Big Tech – AI has to Either Replace Them or AI Spending Must Stop

In the case with these federal agencies’ legacy systems, as this report documents, many of them use older coding languages, such as COBOL, and there are very few coders using these older languages anymore.

All the money in IT now is being allocated for AI LLM development, building data centers, and developing new energy sources to power these data centers.

Well none of that is going to matter if critical IT networks already in place fail to protect and run our country, or are easily hacked, as there won’t be enough qualified technicians around to fix them, because they are going where the money is today, in the AI bubble.

Some excerpts from MeriTalk:

GAO Asks Congress to Require Agency IT Modernization Plans

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that Congress consider requiring major Federal government agencies to develop modernization plans for legacy IT systems that have been identified as among those most in need of overhauling.

In making that recommendation, GAO chided the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which it said has thus far “not taken action” on GAO recommendations offered nearly a decade ago for OMB to identify legacy systems and/or investments needed to modernize them.

“Given OMB’s lack of action, Congress requiring federal agencies to develop modernization plans for critical legacy systems can expedite agencies’ efforts,” the watchdog agency said.

Those are some of the bigger takeaways from the public version of a GAO report issued today in which the agency flags what it sees as “11 of the most critical federal legacy systems” at 10 of the larger Federal government agencies.

The report identifies those agencies by name but does not identify the specific worrisome systems at those agencies “due to sensitivity concerns.”

The watchdog’s report covers 11 legacy systems at a total of 10 agencies, including two at the Department of the Treasury, and one each at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the departments of Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture.

The 11 legacy systems range between 23 years old (at the Interior Department) and 60 years old (at the Defense Department).

“These agencies’ missions are essential to government operations such as health care, critical infrastructure, tax processing, and national security, and these legacy systems provide vital support to the agencies’ missions,” GAO said.

Of the 11 legacy systems, GAO said that eight of them use outdated coding languages, four of them have unsupported hardware or software, and seven “are operating with known cybersecurity vulnerabilities.”

“For example, both of the Department of the Treasury’s selected systems run on Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) and Assembly Language Code – programming languages that have a dwindling number of people available with the skills needed to support them,” GAO said.

“Until agencies fully document modernization plans for critical legacy IT systems, their modernization initiatives will have an increased likelihood of cost overruns, schedule delays, and overall project failure,” GAO warned.

“Project failure would be particularly detrimental not only because of wasted resources, but also because it would prolong the lifespan of increasingly vulnerable and obsolete systems,” the agency continued.

“This could expose agencies and system clients to security threats and potentially significant performance issues.”

Further, GAO said, “There are likely more legacy systems needing attention beyond what is highlighted in this report.”

GAO recalled that in June 2019, it identified 10 critical Federal legacy IT systems that were most in need of modernization, but that as of February 2025, agencies have completed only three of the 10 modernizations.

“Of the seven remaining modernizations, agencies planned to complete four in the next few years, two in 5 or more years, and one does not yet have a planned completion date established,” GAO said.

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The Massie Revenge? U.S. House in Panic Mode about Potential Epstein Vote

“It’s all Epstein, all day,” said one frustrated House Republican who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the controversy. “We can’t ignore this.” – Politico

Republican House Congressman Thomas Massie and Democrat House Congressman Ro Khanna are quickly gaining support, mostly among Democrats but some GOP members are also now signing on, to bring a “discharge petition” to the floor of the House of Representatives to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

What sweet revenge this could be for Massie, who is often attacked by his own Republican party, and especially Trump, for opposing Zionism.

Republicans want to cancel next week’s schedule and go home early for the summer, so they don’t have to answer to constituents about the Epstein scandal.

Just the threat of turning on the light here is sending the cockroaches scurrying to hide.

From Politico:

Looming Epstein vote has Republicans eager to leave Washington

A discharge effort from Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna could put members on the spot as soon as next week.

Excerpts:

House Republican leaders are under fierce internal pressure to send members home for the summer amid deepening anxiety over a possible vote on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy.

Many GOP lawmakers fear being cornered by an expected “discharge petition” that would force a House vote on publicizing Epstein-related records. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) launched the effort Tuesday, making it available for signatures and a possible floor vote as soon as next week.

Questions about the late convicted sex predator have exploded inside the GOP since the Justice Department announced earlier this month it had concluded there was no foul play involved in his 2019 death while in federal custody and there is no “client list” of powerful accomplices to be released.

Republicans want to leave town early for several reasons, but senior House Republicans acknowledge the calls for transparency around the Epstein case is becoming a bigger problem for the party.

President Donald Trump’s insistence that the controversy is a “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” concocted by Democrats — while eviscerating some of his own supporters as “weaklings” who have fallen prey to his political opponents’ “bullshit” — has done little to tamp down the fury.

“It’s all Epstein, all day,” said one frustrated House Republican who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the controversy. “We can’t ignore this.”

The hope, according to more than a dozen GOP members and aides, has been that Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise decide to cancel next week’s scheduled House session and instead send members home for an extended summer recess once voting concludes Thursday or Friday.

The thinking, the members and aides said, is that members won’t have to face questions at home about whether or not they have signed on to the Massie-Khanna effort — and that the issue will have died down by the time members return to Washington in September.

Trump’s New Strategy for the Epstein Files – “Let the courts decide”

The New York Times has published an article today about Trump’s statement that Pam Bondi should ask the courts to release Grand Jury documents in the Epstein trial from 2019.

As the NYT accurately reports, Trump has criticized the courts so far in his administration, so this is an about face about respecting their authority when it comes to the Epstein files.

But as CNN reports, “The Department of Justice is expected to ask a judge to release additional material, which is typically kept secret — but it’s unclear what they will argue that will convince a judge to release additional material that has been held back to protect victims and accusers.”

Is it not obvious that Trump, Bondi and the DOJ know full well that the courts will not authorize this?

Then they can wring their hands together and proclaim: “We wanted to, but the courts won’t let us.”

Do you think this will satisfy the MAGA crowd?

I doubt it. Somebody or some group must have some leverage on Trump, and perhaps Susie Wiles also, to force them to keep this news story going.

Perhaps someone outside of the Government has the tapes and is threatening to release them.

It won’t be the WSJ, we know for sure, because otherwise they would not have made their feeble attempt to publish some computer generated graphic and letter to try and make Trump look bad, even if the letter is legit.

Someone may be ready to release a video of Trump sexually abusing a minor, or even testimony from Epstein himself implicating Trump.

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This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

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