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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. . . .

The administration's most recent budget request also mystified lawmakers. 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.

Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the top two lawmakers for Senate homeland appropriations, rejected the idea shortly after it arrived late last month, Senate leadership officials said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207997,00.html

And this administration claims to be tough on terror? What a friggen joke.
 
Somehow I expected that the repubs on this board would ignore this thread. LOL
 
aps said:
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. . . .

The administration's most recent budget request also mystified lawmakers. 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.

Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the top two lawmakers for Senate homeland appropriations, rejected the idea shortly after it arrived late last month, Senate leadership officials said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207997,00.html

And this administration claims to be tough on terror? What a friggen joke.
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Despite advances in technology I believe that the best bomb detectors are still dogs, how much is one of those to maintain? To me cancelling the finance of technology that will (not in the forseable) be able to outwork a domesticated animal.
 
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aps said:
Somehow I expected that the repubs on this board would ignore this thread. LOL
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Don't need another reason to see that this administration is all show. The most incompetant adminsitration IMO.
Then again, funding for such technology would be anti-faith and pro-science. Now we wouldn't want that.

Probably that the companies of these technologies didn't make canpaign contributions to bush or worse made them to his opponent. But that's just my speculation.
 
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Don't need another reason to see that this administration is all show. The most incompetant adminsitration IMO.
Then again, funding for such technology would be anti-faith and pro-science. Now we wouldn't want that.

Probably that the companies of these technologies didn't make canpaign contributions to bush or worse made them to his opponent. But that's just my speculation.
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Hopefully the democrats will stand up to the republicans assertions that they are better at keeping us safe. So NOT true. For example:

Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., a Democrat running for the Senate in Tennessee, issued a statement Monday noting that the administration shut down a C.I.A. unit dedicated to pursuing Mr. bin Laden. The administration has said that the C.I.A. shut down the unit as part of a restructuring of its counterterrorism division and that the move did not diminish its focus on Al Qaeda and its leaders.

“The president told us that the British attacks are a stark reminder that the nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom,’’ Mr. Ford said, “yet his administration has dismantled the very infrastructure that is responsible for catching those terrorists.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/washington/15dems.html
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You go, Harold Ford! Keep that stuff coming!
 
aps said:
Hopefully the democrats will stand up to the republicans assertions that they are better at keeping us safe. So NOT true. For example:



You go, Harold Ford! Keep that stuff coming!
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I'm not surprised. Afterall, we know for a fact that OBL is along the Afgan Pakistan border, as are the remainder of AQ. Yet, we go into Iraq where we think AQ was.
huh?
 
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