A little shout out to our RW friends whining about something tonight:

[The Straight Story]

This is making the rounds today:

Obama administration has SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45 per cent, says former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310110/Obama-administration-SLASHED-budget-domestic-bombing-prevention-45-cent-says-Homeland-Security-Assistant-Secretary.html


Going through some google searches (ie, actually researching things and not grasping at straws) we have folks like Thomas Coburn (R-OK) saying:

Eliminate the Office of Bombing Prevention

Office of Bombing Prevention
Terrorists’ use of improvised explosive devices (IED) has been a real threat to this nation because of the r elative ease with which an IED can be made and the massive destruction resulting from these bombings makes them a very attractive weapon for terrorists to employ.

Given the importance our own intelligence agencies have placed on the threat of IEDs and the examples already out there of IEDs easily being employed, it is critically important that our government address these issues to effectively prevent terrorists from using IEDs here in America.

The federal government, however, is duplicating efforts to address this issue. Instead of one agency focusing on this important issue, several agencies are involved.

Federal explosives laws have been administered and enforced by the ATF for the past 40 years.

In administering and enforcing the provisions of these federal explosives laws, DOJ, through ATF and the FBI, has a full range of programs and capabilities designed to ―deter, detect, prevent, protect against, and respond to terrorist explosives attacks.
These include:

ATF’s U.S Bomb Data Center

ATF’s National Center for Explosives Training and Research

FBI’s Hazardous Devices School

ATF’s Arson and Explosives National Response Team

The Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center

Despite the Department of Justice’s clear expertise and resources at the ready to deal with bombing incidents, the Department of Homeland Security established the Office for Bombing Prevention (OBP) in 2003.

OBP has never been authorized by Congress. In FY 2011, the department received about $15 million in funding.

OBP mission is to ―develop tools to improve national preparedness for bombing threats at all levels of government, the public, and
within the private sector.

There is no doubt that the pre-9-11 coordination and communication problems continue to existamong federal agencies. However, the answer is not to add more agencies into the mix to act as―coordinators.

By eliminating the DHS’ Office of Bombing Prevention,and allowing ATF and FBI to handle explosives, it would save the American taxpayer $163 million over ten years.

http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=1c112a70-ff9f-42b1-a112-95753550df3f

And that was just after a few minutes of looking.

So yeah, try to pin this on Obama cutting wasteful spending if you want, but keep digging yourselves and see that the people in your own party see it as a waste of spending (and what they mainly do is provide training, they budget is not for actual bomb detection...)

[Dawson Leery]

1. ATF and FBI have the background and means to deal with such threats.

The Bush/Freeper/DINO supported DHS is a waste of taxpayer dollars and inefficient.

[The Straight Story]

2. Yep, but rw will find anything to attack obama with even when

it is not relevant.

[Dawson Leery]

3. I agree.

I wanted to make it clear the monster known as the DHS is the doing of Bush, his lacky's (which Freerepublic was and still is)
as well as the corrupt (bought off with campaign donations/jobs for family members) DINO's.