Monica vs. 9/11

[ButterflyBlood]

I've heard here many times that $80 million was spent investigating Clinton's blowjob, while $3 million was spent on 9/11. Now I'm trying to point this out to some people. Anyone got a link for these?

if the $80 million figure is true though, it's a good point to make and say "Don't blame liberals for wasting your tax dollars on stupid projects"

[ozone_man]

1. A sore point for me also.

I thought something like $14M was allocated for 911 (pretty tiny amount), and something like $50M to investigate Columbia. These are really rough numbers. It would like to know.

Appointing Henry Kissinger to investigate 911 was a clear attempt to squash it IMO. But replacing him didn't seem to help much.

[rfranklin]

2. How about Time magazine?

9-11 Commission Funding Woes
Questions arise concerning the administration's funding of the congressional investigation into the September 11th attacks
By TIMOTHY J. BURGER

Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2003
Is the Bush White House trying to put the brakes on the congressional panel created last fall to investigate 9-11 attacks? Sources tell TIME that the White House brushed off a request quietly made last week by the 9-11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, to boost his budget by $11 million. Kean had sought the funding as part of the $75 billion supplemental spending bill that the president just requested to pay for war with Iraq. Bush's recent move has miffed some members of the 9-11 panel.

Kean and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the panel's top Democrat, requested additional funding in a letter to the administration last week. The money was to pay for a staff of about sixty and their resources. Kean plans to field a separate task force for each of nine areas that the law establishing the commission requires it to investigate. The panel has until the end of May 2004 to complete its work, but it will spend the $3 million it was originally allotted by around August 2003 — if it doesn't get the supplement. "We hope that this request will be included in the supplemental appropriations proposal now being prepared by the administration," wrote Kean and Hamilton in a March 19 letter to a CIA official who is in charge of intelligence community budgeting. The request has been endorsed by the entire bipartisan commission at a recent meeting. In denying the request, the White House irritated many of the members of the commission. "This is very counterproductive if the White House's intention is to prevent the commission from being politicized, because it will look like they have something to hide," said a Republican member of the commission.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html