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Re: Terror Plot Thwarted [message #213081 is a reply to message #213020] Sun, 13 August 2006 16:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Kanezor wrote on Sun, 13 August 2006 12:59

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...nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of funding went unused, and even then the administration was still making cuts.
I don't understand; if the money was not being unused, then what is the problem in cutting the funding?



The Homeland Security Department had lots of funding alloted by Congress, but it was too poorly run to actually use it, and so the Bush administration tried to divert funding from one of the more important aspects of airport security even though they had plenty of money laying around. The funding wasn't going unused because it wasn't needed.

And now the Bush administration is talking about how stong they are on protecting airplanes from terrorism. So instead of installing cheap, highly effective liquid/gel explosives detectors that were already funded, the Bush administration though a better course of action was to revise transport rules so that no one can bring any sort of liquid onto a plane.


"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)

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