Black Jack has earmarked the National Drug Intelligence Center to take over the terrorist watch list. This was news to the intelligence community in general and the Justice Department in particular. The Justice Department is the NDIC's parent agency where a spokesman indicated that there were no such plans in the works. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has already recommended that the NDIC be closed due to poor performance. Does this sound like the caliber of organization that should be maintaining the list of terrorists who shouldn't be granted access to an airplane?All of this was news to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) too. He's on the intelligence committee and says he never saw the request from Murtha for the $23 million earmark that made this outrageous claim.
USA Today has this story and more stuff like this:
Murtha's earmark request also claimed that the NDIC was taking over the "terror incident training program," which the Justice Department also denied.This man is a pathological liar...
And check this one out:
An earmark application for $500,000 to give anti-terrorist training to Phoenix police doesn't mention that the amount is six times the cost of the program. Nor does the application letter, from Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., note that police already have paid for the anti-terrorist training themselves and are no longer seeking federal funds.This is just an absurd waste of tax payer funds. This is why we never get the national debt down...we keep spending ridiculous amounts of money on crap like this...
UPDATE: Gribbit weighs in on the revelations contained in the USA Today article here.
