Bush* tried to cut counter-terror funding AFTER 9/11

[mot78]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A13541-2004Mar21¬Found=true

I'm sorry if this was posted already.

[ACK]

1. Incredible!!

That link is going into Politics folder now.

Thank you!!

[mot78]

2. Interesting

<<The group released two other administration documents, parts of which have already been made public, showing that just before the Sept. 11 attacks, Ashcroft did not agree to $588 million in increases that the FBI was seeking for 2003. That request included funds to hire 54 translators and 248 counterterrorism agents and support staff. But in his 2003 request sent to the White House, dated Sept. 10, 2001, Ashcroft did not propose that any FBI programs get increases above previously set levels and proposed small cuts to some programs related to counterterrorism.

Other documents indicate that before Sept. 11, Ashcroft did not give terrorism top billing in his strategic plans for the Justice Department, which includes the FBI. A draft of Ashcroft's "Strategic Plan" from Aug. 9, 2001, does not put fighting terrorism as one of the department's seven goals, ranking it as a sub-goal beneath gun violence and drugs. After the attacks, fighting terrorism became the department's primary goal. By contrast, in April 2000, Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, called terrorism "the most challenging threat in the criminal justice area." >>

[maveric]

Wouldnt it be nice if the "Fair and Balanced", free press...

would give this airtime? Ah yes, I remember when the media had integrity and vowed to tell the truth.

[LittleApple81]

3. These people are BEYOND BELIEF. I am totally riveted because

the most powerful nation in the world is led by criminal idiots.

[sadiesworld]

4. Factoids like this lure me to the L/MIHOP camp.

Why would you need to increase counterterrorism funding if you knew the event was never likely to be repeated?

[mot78]

5. Kick!!! EXPOSE THE BFEE AND ASHCROFT!!!!!!

[cheezus]

6. plagerized it in my blog

kick

[NuttyFluffers]

7. saving to disk and bump

article saved to disk to be printed ad infinitum for anyone who dares says bush is strong on terror.

i suggest everyone here does the same.

i'm collecting lots of this stuff. well, thank goodness the evidence is seriously piling up, for if the person doesn't get it from these countless facts, at least the weight of all this stuff on paper could smother said mongoloid to death, sparing the nation. it's a win-win :)

[ComerPerro]

8. well, this administration needs terror attacks

that is the only way it can pretend to have legitimacy

[mot78]

9. Kick!!!