Bush Admin. Tried To Cut Millions In Bomb Detection Technology...

Associated Press JOHN SOLOMON August 11, 2006 at 10:27 PM
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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 theHomeland 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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