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To: blue red who wrote (126908)	3/22/2004 8:41:53 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 281500

FBI Budget Squeezed After 9/11 __________ Request for New Counterterror Funds Cut by Two-Thirds By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 22, 2004 washingtonpost.com In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows. The document, dated Oct. 12, 2001, shows that the FBI requested $1.5 billion in additional funds to enhance its counterterrorism efforts with the creation of 2,024 positions. But the White House Office of Management and Budget cut that request to $531 million. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, working within the White House limits, cut the FBI's request for items such as computer networking and foreign language intercepts by half, cut a cyber-security request by three quarters and eliminated entirely a request for "collaborative capabilities." <more in article>

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