Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved

[Jon8503]

By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - 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 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 was to involve liquid explosives.


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[uppityperson]

1. oh my word, save us from these morans.

this is seriously f*ed up.

[Monkeyman]

2. All Bush has to do is find the 26 billion missing in Iraq na he signed

a signing statement on that one.

[Justice Is Comin]

3. You don't suppress terror when you are praying for terror.

Ipso fatso, there you have it.

[Iwasthere]

4. They have no intention of stopping tarests... never have

Feedin the war machine at every opportunty... They want death and destruction ...that has been obvious all along... in fact they don't even try to hide it anymore (as the post proves)and STILL they get away with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How fucking gullable are we??!!

[evlbstrd]

5. This is not at all surprising.

But, look at the terminology. I've never been comfortable with the name Homeland Security. And what's up with the Sciences & Technology Directorate?