AP: New York, D.C. lose anti-terror funding (new GAO finding)

[Eugene]

Posted on Wed, Feb. 07, 2007

New York, D.C. lose anti-terror funding
DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security officials slashed anti-terror funding to New York City
and Washington last year after they decided to devote more attention and resources to
the nation's suburbs, congressional investigators said Wednesday.

The Government Accountability Office sent lawmakers a 49-page analysis of the decision-
making at the Homeland Security Department that led to 40 percent cuts in 2006 to
funding for the two U.S. cities hit in the 2001 terror attacks.

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Investigators zeroed in on a key change the agency made in handing out dollars - for the
first time, the agency widened the "footprint" of eligible cities to include suburbs.

"As a consequence of this change in the footprint, DHS officials concluded that the
relative risk of New York City and the National Capital Region declined compared to those
of other urban areas," the GAO analysis found.

One longtime critic of the cuts, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called that description "the 12th
different explanation we've gotten, and it still doesn't add up."

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Full article: http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/16647352.htm

[Drum]

1. Idiocy!

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[Old and In the Way]

2. Where are the GOP votes?

In the suburbs! Big surprise...everything is a political calculation for the GOP. I'm sure Cheney gave his son-in-law the green light. Gotta protect his flanks.

[ninkasi]

3. I think you're right

I'm old, and in the way, too, and I really can't see terrorists targeting the suburbs as much as NYC, DC, and other major cities. Of course, the most likely targets are blue voters, so naturally, the twit doesn't gain anything by giving them a proportionate share of the money. No, stick to the areas that mostly vote for the Republics, it doesn't make sense, but it's the Republic way.

[salin]

4. and we have all heard about all of those foiled terrorist plots

targeting suburbia... :sarcasm: