Bush's Secret Effort To Steal $$$ Away From Airplane Bomb Detection

[kpete]

More on Bush's secret effort to steal money away from airplane bomb detection just last month

Bureaucracy impedes bomb-detection work By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 12, 5:53 AM ET

WASHINGTON - As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new explosives detection technology. Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of Homeland Security Department steps that have left lawmakers and some of the department's own experts questioning the commitment to create better anti-terror technologies.

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The administration also was slow to start testing a new liquid explosives detector that the Japanese government provided to the United States earlier this year.

The British plot to blow up as many as 10 American airlines on trans-Atlantic flights would have involved liquid explosives.

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The administration's most recent budget request also mystified lawmakers. It asked to take $6 million from the Sciences & Technology Directorate's 2006 budget that was supposed to be used to develop explosives detection technology and divert it to cover a budget shortfall in the Federal Protective Service, which provides security around government buildings.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060812/ap_on_go_ot/terror_explosives_detection_10

[geomon666]

1. It's like a 4 year old playing chess with a master.

If the master didn't know any better he'd be routinely scratching his head in a WTF moment. :wtf:

[Double T]

2. Cooked books, pea and shell, legislation gets passed but.......

never funded. Homeland Security is as big a farce as bushco itself.

[flyarm]

3. OH BUT LITTLE LORD PISSY PANTS WOULDN'T PLAY GAMES

with national security would he??????????

and Americans wouldn't throw their common sense out with their toothpaste would they??

boo

be afraid Americans, be very afraid..you are worthless to little lord pissy pants unless you are afraid...

what ever happened to the "land of the free" and the "home of the brave"?????

the words should be changed to " home of the scare-ty cats!"

fly

yes you are reading this right..bush was going to strip $6 million from bomb detection for homeland security for other more important things(?)

must read:

Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved
By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press WriterFri Aug 11, 7:38 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060811/ap_on_go_ot/terror_explosives_detection

snip:

While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology.

Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of steps by the Homeland Security Department that has left lawmakers and some of the department's own experts questioning the commitment to create better anti-terror technologies.

Homeland Security's research arm, called the Sciences & Technology Directorate, is a "rudderless ship without a clear way to get back on course," Republican and Democratic senators on the Appropriations Committee declared recently.

"The committee is extremely disappointed with the manner in which S&T is being managed within the Department of Homeland Security," the panel wrote June 29 in a bipartisan report accompanying the agency's 2007 budget.