Apparently, despite this week’s unpleasantness, the Bush administration has its security priorities in order …. NOT:
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.
And this is not an isolated incident:
For more than four years, officials inside Homeland Security also have debated whether to deploy smaller trace explosive detectors