Tuesday, January 17, 2006

GAO releases report on anti-terrorism funding data, who knows where the money went?


In the just-released January 2006, GAO report: COMBATING TERRORISM - Determining and Reporting Federal Funding Data, the conclusion seems to be that:


"Although OMB’s analysis of homeland security funding in the Analytical Perspectives of the President’s budget satisfies the current legal requirements under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, it does not provide a complete accounting of all funds allocated to combating terrorism activities."

Apparently, there are more holes seeping money that need to be plugged. OMB actually objected to the GAO including information on overseas combating terrorism funding data based on the "unreliability" of the data. The reason? Because OMB has not reviewed agency submissions of overseas combating terrorism data since fiscal year 2003.

Note that for FY2006 the Administration is budgeting $0.00 for:
1. FBI's Foreign terrorist tracking task force. [pg. 47 of the report]
2. DOJ's Community oriented policing services & State and local law enforcement assistance. [pg. 48]

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