Fred Kaplan in a quickie analysis of the DHS budget shows that there is a lot of sloppy accounting going on in that budget that was submitted for this FY. The reason for the sloppiness is to obscure the fact that the "supposed" 40 billion dollars is not really 40 billion but much less money being allocated, and the real percentage increase is just slightly above the rate of inflation. Mr. Kaplan shows that the actual money being spent is on the order of 30 billion dollars which is only 3% higher then last year. For the low down Homeland Security's Mystery Money and read the article to see that BushCo is actually cutting back the budgets for state first responders and other frontline agencies while whittling away at the privacy of Americans through funding more money for greater sharing of local, state and national police agencies resources (namely data sharing).
A direct slap at the BushCo concentration camp called Camp Delta the British government has freed all five of the released British citizens from that camp. "Steven Watt, a British lawyer who represented Mr Rasul and Mr Iqbal in the US, said their release was not surprising and thought they would claim compensation.
"They have spent two-and-a-half years languishing in that prison [Guantanamo] - it is a complete travesty of justice."
What is known is that there is little factual support the claims of Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld in that those men and boys held at Camp Delta are some of the most dangerous people poised to strike at Americans.
Finally, in the heart of Texas is the passage by the city council of Dallas to tell BushCo that the USA PATRIOT Act is actually against the citizens of this country. "Dallas has reaffirmed the classic American value of local governance. It has recently joined the more than 250 other American cities in passing a resolution that condemns portions of the USA Patriot Act that threaten civil liberties. The article is a good summation for why more the half of the 15 most populous cities in America have passed similiar resolutions.
A direct slap at the BushCo concentration camp called Camp Delta the British government has freed all five of the released British citizens from that camp. "Steven Watt, a British lawyer who represented Mr Rasul and Mr Iqbal in the US, said their release was not surprising and thought they would claim compensation.
"They have spent two-and-a-half years languishing in that prison [Guantanamo] - it is a complete travesty of justice."
What is known is that there is little factual support the claims of Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld in that those men and boys held at Camp Delta are some of the most dangerous people poised to strike at Americans.
Finally, in the heart of Texas is the passage by the city council of Dallas to tell BushCo that the USA PATRIOT Act is actually against the citizens of this country. "Dallas has reaffirmed the classic American value of local governance. It has recently joined the more than 250 other American cities in passing a resolution that condemns portions of the USA Patriot Act that threaten civil liberties. The article is a good summation for why more the half of the 15 most populous cities in America have passed similiar resolutions.
posted by Ken at 12:23 PM
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