Intelligence Funding

[shep]

Another false allegation is that Kerry voted to decrease intelligence spending after 9/11. Here's the real story:

It's true that Kerry proposed cuts in 1994 and 1995, and the his 1994 proposal was criticized on the Senate floor by some members of his own party. But the proposal Bush criticized would have amounted to a reduction of roughly 1%. And (here's the kicker) senior congressional Republicans supported a cut two-thirds as large at the time.

And to the best of my knowledge, never voted to decrease intelligence funding after 9/11. However, the white house did work against it:

"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" --Washington Post

 

[tadou]

Five days after Ashcroft agreed to reduce the FBI emergency request from $1.5 billion to $531 million, the White House asked Congress for a similar amount, $538.5 million, for the FBI as part of a $20 billion supplemental spending package responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. Just over two months later, Congress approved the $20 billion package as part of a defense spending bill but gave the FBI $745 million.

The FBI's overall budget grew from $3.3 billion in fiscal 2001 to $4.3 billion in fiscal 2003


CTFO. Within 3 months, that 1.5 million turned into 1.8 billion.

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

And this ties in how?

 

[tadou]

Because he cut off his post trying to make the White House look bad, instead of telling the whole story. And the rest of the story is that the FBI got 1.8 billion instead of the 1.5 billion they asked for.