Re: "michael chertoff reassured people things would only go s o far"

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

-- Paul Vixie <paul () vix com> wrote:

> "I don't see us moving to a total ban on hand baggage at this point"
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060813/ap_on_re_us/terror_plot_security_6

Let's hope so.

On a related point, I ran across this just a few minutes ago:

[snip]

As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration
quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent
this year developing new explosives detection technology.

Congressional leaders rejected the diversion of funds, the latest in a
series of Homeland Security Department steps that have left lawmakers
and some of the department’s own experts questioning the commitment to
create better antiterror technologies.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14333164/

I guess we can all feel (fear?) better now. :-)

- ferg

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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