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...Coast Guard, the General Accounting Office and others have said that more funding is necessary to ensure that residents of port cities like Boston are safe. When Bush laid the final groundwork for war with Iraq, he pledged to protect the nation’s ports. We hope that he makes good on his pledge, but recent history provides many reasons to doubt. When the Coast Guard reported that secure ports would cost nearly $1 billion, Bush responded with rhetoric about the importance of the Coast Guard to national security, but he failed to request a single dollar in either...
Bush also called on the states to use local forces to protect possible targets of terrorist attacks. But this important line of defense against terrorism has also been forced to make sacrifices that are unnecessary and counterproductive to their mission. Bush pledged to provide $3.5 billion in 2003 to first responders—those firefighters, police officers and other officials who are responsible for protecting the public in the case of a terrorist attack—and an additional $3.5 billion in 2004. Instead, Bush transferred $1.2 billion in federal funds already earmarked for local law enforcement to a similar...
Even when Congress appropriates money, there is no guarantee that the President will spend it. Bush has refused to spend $2.5 billion of Homeland Security spending from last year, $800 million of which was for the first responders that the President is now calling on to protect the likely targets of terror. The money was not saved for other projects; it was just left on the table. The Massachusetts Legislature has repeatedly called on Bush to release the funding, but the Administration has turned a deaf ear. Only recently did the President provide $11.6 million of a promised $556 million...
...that the northeast faced an increased risk of terrorism last year, Shaheen’s office received a warning call. While Shaheen was glad to be warned about the risk, she was disappointed when federal officials were unable or unwilling to provide any information that could help New Hampshire protect its citizens, including when and where they expected an attack, and why they felt an attack was likely...
...taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia’s accusation is baseless. What Fried proposed the court do—take from the poor to protect an overly-narrow definition of property—would be far worse...