NYDN: Bioterror Chills (NYC funds cut again! Schumer: "politics at work")

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NY Daily News: Bioterror chills
CDC doesn't weigh risk when divvying up funds
By JIMMY VIELKIND, AMY SACKS and ADAM LISBERG
DAILY NEWS WRITERS


NYPD haz-mat team checks can with mystery liquid, as Manhattan remains vulnerable to bioterror.

Penny-pinching feds are set to deal New Yorkers a second blow - cutting the city's bioterror funds by up to 15%, it was revealed yesterday.

The hit will come on money used to plan for the unthinkable: everything from dirty bomb explosions to chemical attacks to the unleashing of deadly biological agents to flu pandemics.

Sen. Chuck Schumer slammed the proposed budget slashing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday, just days after the Homeland Security Department whacked New York's anti-terror funding by 40% - saying the city had no icons.

"To cut New York once again shows something. To cut New York a second time shows there's a pattern there in Washington," said Schumer (D-N.Y.). "This second cut - from a different agency - shows that politics is at work."

While the CDC cut will be $3.1 million - compared with the $83 million Homeland Security slashing - Schumer called the move another slap in the face from the White House to a city rocked by 9/11, the anthrax letters of 2001 and constant terror threats....

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/423815p-357615c.html

[NorthernSun]

1. What ever happened to those anthrax terrorists?

Either Cheney already knows where the next attack will be, or he knows there is no real 'outside' danger.

[rodeodance]

2. Chertoff was one of the procecutors for Clinton's Whitewater case.