The media really need to start asking Bush's people how anyone can possibly be expected to take anything they say seriously. From AP via Yahoo:
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.George Bush's "administration" of government in a time of war is negligent. Read the rest of the article to find out how sheer incompetence of bureaucracy puts you at risk when you fly.
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.
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The department failed to spend $200 million in research and development money from past years, forcing lawmakers to rescind the money this summer.
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.
