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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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10 Mar 2005 07:40:23 PM |
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Bush's FBI pisses away $170 million |
From Salon 3/9/05:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/03/09/fbi/index.html
Let's do this again.
In his State of the Union address last month, George W. Bush
proclaimed:
"Taxpayer dollars must be spent wisely, or not at all." Is he living
by his own creed?
For more than two years now, the Bush administration has been telling
us about the great strides the FBI is making in the world of
technology.
We were told the bureau is "improving its ability to analyze
intelligence."
We were told that it was "transforming itself to meet new threats."
And it was the president who was telling us all that.
Well then, what do we have here?
The FBI announced yesterday that it is scrapping a new computer system
that never actually worked -- but only after spending 170 million of
those "taxpayer dollars" on it.
As the New York Times explains, the "Virtual Case File" was a software
project "considered critical in helping agents investigate terrorism."
But last month, a Justice Department inspector general said the FBI
had done such a poor job of planning and managing the project that it
might need to be scrapped.
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$170 million is just pocket change to George W. Bush.
Harry
"WE WILL SPEND $3.3 TRILLION OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS ON TOP OF ---ON
TOP OF THE $1.9 TRILLION BUDGET. WE STILL HAVE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
LEFT IN THE SURPLUS."
George W. Bush -- Inside Politics, 8/22/00
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