Isn't this interesting? 'Daddy' Bush's HSD was trying to divert 6 million to be spent on explosives detectors to 'something more important'.

"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."

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