I.R.S. Request for More Terrorism Investigators Is Denied

[radfringe]

I.R.S. Request for More Terrorism Investigators Is Denied
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/business/31irs.html
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON -- Published: March 31, 2004

WASHINGTON, March 30 - The Bush administration has scuttled a plan to increase by 50 percent the number of criminal financial investigators working to disrupt the finances of Al Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist organizations to save $12 million, a Congressional hearing was told on Tuesday.

The Internal Revenue Service had asked for 80 more criminal investigators beginning in October to join the 160 it has already assigned to penetrate the shadowy networks that terrorist groups use to finance plots like the Sept. 11 attacks and the recent train bombings in Madrid. But the Bush administration did not include them in the president's proposed budget for the 2005 fiscal year.

The disclosure, to a House Ways and Means subcommittee, came near the end of a routine hearing into the I.R.S. budget after most of the audience, including reporters, had left the hearing room.

[Avalon Sparks]

1. I said it on 9/11~~

The best way to stop attacks like the one on 9/11 is to hit them where it hurts - financially.

This is just stupid that Bush won't fund this. Of course since he already added 1 job this month... 80 more would be pushing it, right?

[CaptainClark23]

2. It makes perfect sense

for them not to finance. 9.11 has a money trail. they control FBI and CIA investigations...apparently they are not as secure in their ability to control IRS.

they are trying to cover too many gaps as it is, they cannot afford the risk of some bright analyst who they don't own tracking down the paymasters.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. The IRS might accidentally snare in some of Bush's campaign

donors. These government regulating systems aren't foolproof, you know.

[teryang]

4. More obstruction of justice

Drown it in the bathtub before it unveils treason.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Good morning radfringe

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