Who Divides Antiterror Money? That's a Secret (NYT)

[kpete]

Who Divides Antiterror Money? That's a Secret

By DIANE CARDWELL and AL BAKER
Published: June 3, 2006

The panel that guided the distribution of $711 million in antiterrorism money in a process that led to New York City's share being reduced by 40 percent is a shadow player in the war on terror, its work kept secret and its members shielded from view.

A collection of about 100 law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats from all over the country, the so-called peer reviewers who evaluated proposals for the Department of Homeland Security, took vows of silence, signing agreements that they would not reveal the substance of their deliberations.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/nyregion/03security.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1149336030-OuntmR6s9qUelGVbxhWwyQ

[itzamirakul]

1. Along with all the other secret panels and groups and lobbyists the GOP

has created to keep itself in power...huh? I think we may discover after this coming election, that our election process (as we know it) will come to an end.

What is the point of having elected officials if major decisions such as the above are made by secret panels who are apparently above scrutiny?

Everyone should read Robert Kennedy Jr.'s article about 2004's stolen election. I just read it this morning at www.commondreams.org

It is excellent and very well researched (not that any of that will mean a damn thing when it comes to holding this administration accountable for their criminal acts).