Bush Staff Wanted Bomb-Detect Cash Moved

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-other/2006/aug/11/081104306.html

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.

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[hadrons]

1. Bush Staff Wanted Bomb-Detect Cash Moved ... to their accounts

and Halliburton's

[xchrom]

2. k&r

[Rose Siding]

3. MISERABLE failure

[sarcasmo]

4. Who needs Science and Technology when they have Jesus.

I am so sick of the Religious stupidity in this World.

[Miss Chybil]

5. I really had a hard time understanding this headline.

I think it should have read "Bush Staff Wanted Bomb Detection Money Moved," or, "Bush Staff Wanted to Cut Bomb Detection Funds." I thought they meant Bush staff wanted a bomb and were going to divert cash to buy it.

[Tempest]

6. Bush to Americans: Fuck You

From the article:

"It asked to take $6 million from Homeland S&T's 2006 budget that was supposed to be used 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."


In other words, according to Bush, the American people are not as important as government officials.


"People shouldn't be afraid of the government. The government should be afraid of the people."
- V

[jpak]

8. "Who would have thought they would use undetectable liquid explosives

to bring down 10 planes"

Condi's future lame excuse...

[Tempest]

13. Just like her lame excuse for 9/11 it rings hollow

Everyone knew since 1995 when bin Laden talked about using liquid explosives and it was done on a Japanese flight to the Philippines.

[neuvocat]

7. There goes that post-primary bounce, huh?

I guess between calling Conneticut voters terrorist sympathizers and this, you can't exactly hope to capitalize on that Red terra lert.

[Blaq Dem]

9. I'm questioning whether or not their really is a war on terrorism

It looks more like a war on our pockets. Haliburton and its ilk are getting fatter and fatter at our expense And how convenient these bomb scares arrive near every election. It just makes you wonder.

[cornermouse]

11. Think about it.

The nation as a whole is getting tired and angry about the war.

Liberals appear to regain the upper hand and unseat a conservative senator for a more liberal candidate in the primaries which could be a sign of things to come.

Gas prices are through the roof. People's wages haven't risen. Prices for everything is going up and spending power is dropping like a rock. We have people in this country who are looking toward winter and wondering how they're going to stay warm and whether they're going to go hungry.

And oh yeah. More shenanigans from the company insiders who backdated their stock options or something.

So, if you're a republican... Who you gonna call?

[havocmom]

12. Just a new version of the old Protection Racket

We keep paying the thugs (via no bid, no oversight contracts) and nobody gets hurt.

Pure and simple.

[mhatrw]

10. BushCo & terrorists sitting in a tree, hatching their plans for victory!

[truthisfreedom]

14. why are the terrorists on the Republican side?

what do they have in common?

[tanyev]

15. Gosh, one might leap to the conclusion that they don't really want

to develop new homeland explosives detection technology. But that would be very cynical.