Bush sought to cut $6M in screening technology

[lily]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14333164/

Bush sought to cut $6M in screening technology
Amid U.K. terror plot, administration targeted anti-terror technology funds

Updated: 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush
administration quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be
spent this year developing new explosives detection technology.

Congressional leaders rejected the diversion of funds, the latest in a
series of Homeland Security Department steps that have left lawmakers and
some of the department's own experts questioning the commitment to create
better antiterror technologies.

Homeland Security's research arm, 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.

[BoogyMan]

726 Million would be spent instead of 732 million?

Hmmm.....

[Rider]

If you read further into the article you find that the DHS had failed to spent 200 million that was given them. Lends a little perspective, no? At some point in the future we'll probably find out more details.

Just another hit piece.