skippy the bush kangaroo: priorities...

Saturday, August 12, 2006

priorities...

while the british terror suspects were hatching their plot, the bush administration was quietly seeking 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...

and to where did the administration intend to divert these funds?

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...it asked to take $6 million from homeland's s&t budget that was supposed to develop explosives detection technology and instead divert it to cover a budget shortfall in the federal protective service, which provides security around government buildings...

just so you know who they're really looking out for.

all the money in the world won't protect any building from a jumbo jet slamming into it at 400 miles an hour, of course, but awol & co. don't seem too concerned about the safety of air travelers, do they?

posted by Jim Yeager at 10:12 AM |