While British Suspects Hatch Plot-Bush Tries To Divert Bomb-Detect Funds

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While British Suspects Hatch Plot-Bush Tries To Divert Bomb-Detect Funds

Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved
AP

WASHINGTON - 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060811/ap_on_go_ot/terror_explosives_detection_4

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