Bush Budget Shifts FBI’s Resources from Crime to Counterterrorism

Published: September 28, 2007, 10:55 am

Tags: fbi, budget, civil liberties, murray, democratic party, civil rights, bush

Lost between the battles over SCHIP and funding the occupation of Iraq, a lot of the other elements of Bush’s budget are being lost in the shuffle. One of them, while not new, is a major round of deep cuts in the law enforcement budget of the FBI and a Big Step towards Bush’s dream of a GOP-run police state. Simply put, a new study by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shows that the budget for non-terrorist law enforcement activities is being erased and hundreds of agents are being shifted into counterterrorism operations - you know, the ones where the Democrats agree with Bush that things like “warrants” are an unnecessary drag and the king president can throw anybody he wants to in jail without having to be bothered by the onerous task of proving they did anything wrong. It’s what you might call a wholesale shift. Entire departments are being drastically underfunded and understaffed, particularly those dealing with - you guessed it - white

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