Fed Biological Detection Program Delayed

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Fed Biological Detection Program Delayed

By LARRY MARGASAK

Friday, August 10, 2007; 4:20 PM

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's program to rapidly detect
biological attacks and disease outbreaks has been anything but
speedy in getting started, the victim of bureaucratic bungling,
a federal watchdog says.

Administration officials acknowledge problems but say the
system has begun operating _ 21 months after Bush announced
the surveillance initiative and three years after he ordered the
effort in a presidential directive.

The program kept bouncing between sections of the Homeland
Security Department. Managers were not hired. The approach
to the surveillance kept changing. And the necessary technology
wasn't operating, the Homeland Security inspector general says
in a report obtained by The Associated Press.

-snip-

The Homeland Security Department's chief spokesman, Russ
Knocke, did not dispute the findings but said Friday the problems
are being addressed and the program is operating _ though not
fully.

-snip-

Congressional investigators dispute the department's optimistic
assessment of the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
(NBIS).

-snip-

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081001328.html

[Ian David]

1. Reagan Republicans hard at work!

They campaign on the platform that government isn't the solution, it's the problem. And then, once they're elected, they do their best to prove it.

I know!

Let's privatize the program and let a corporation from Dubai run it!

[ClintonTyree]

2. Can someone name.....

anything Bush has touched that HASN'T turned into a steaming pile of shit? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

Arrest my case. ;)

[onewholaughsatfools]

3. the question begs to be asked!!!!!!!!!

WHY! WHY! WHY!

[thecrow]

4. Heckuva job, Smirky!!

...or should I say...Russ...