Bush sought to cut $6M in screening technology (anti-terror technology)

[tandot]

Amid U.K. terror plot, administration targeted anti-terror technology funds

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 diversion of funds, 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 antiterror technologies.

Homeland Security’s research arm, 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.

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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.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14333164/from/RS.1/

[savemefromdumbya]

1. Give Bush hell Harry!

[ShockediSay]

2. At least this got some mention on one of the Sun AM news shows

It should be highlighted in simple sound bites to get it through the skulls of our electorate.

We can act a lot tougher on terrorism if we act smarter.

[maddezmom]

3. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2451571