It's nice to see how serious the Bush Administration really is about the so-called "war on terror".
Now we have a nice paper trail to spell out evidence of the failure the Homeland Security's research arm, called the Sciences And Technology Directorate, has become. It's simply another government-created mess that has no direction and results to show for the over $200 billion allotted to it.
Job well done in wasting our hard-earned tax dollars and keeping us safe...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.
Homeland Security's research arm, called 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.
The failing department was so inefficient that Congress even had to rescind $200 million in research and development funding when the money wasn't even planned for use or appropriated for any projects.
Lawmakers and recently retired Homeland Security officials say they are concerned the department's research and development effort is bogged down by bureaucracy, lack of strategic planning and failure to use money wisely.
The department failed to spend $200 million in research and development money from past years, forcing lawmakers to rescind the money this summer.
Let's sum this up in one word, all caps: FAILURE.
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