More focus on Cuba embargo than terror trail is questioned

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Your tax dollars at work to garner votes for the Miserable Failure POS Bush!

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The Treasury Department is criticized after confirming that it is utilizing far more workers for tracking Cuba embargo violators than for tracing shadowy Mideast funds.

BY NANCY SAN MARTIN

Miami Herald

A Treasury Department report acknowledging that it has only four employees chasing Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein's money and nearly two dozen chasing Cuba embargo violators brought withering criticism on the federal agency Thursday.

''The magnitude of the discrepancy is just stunning,'' said Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., a member of the bipartisan Cuba Working Group, which favors lifting U.S. restrictions on travel to the island.

''We're chasing old ladies on bicycle trips in Cuba when we should be concentrating on using a significant tool against shadowy terrorist organizations,'' he added.

The controversy erupted after the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Treasury Secretary John Snow Wednesday requesting a detailed accounting of the terrorist-related assets seized by the department since 1995, as well as the number of staffers dedicated to terrorist-related duties.

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1. Incompetence, mismanagement or miserable failure....

...Maybe dumb like a fox, so Bush marches the world to war, world population is reduced by 80%, and Dubya, his war room and Dr. Strangelove live out the remaining days of their miserable lives underground in Utah somewhere doing lines of coke and Ayn Rand style women like Anne Coulter. Have you noticed that Bush is wearing a body armor vest?:freak:

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2. Four full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama - Alterman

The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists told Congress that at the end of last year it had just four full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's wealth while nearly two dozen were working on Cuban embargo violations.   Feel safer now?

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