Wednesday, February 05, 2003

What would you pay for a 9/11 investigation?

Yeah! I've been wanting for the last couple of weeks to put together a comprehensive comparison of various small government programs with the amount of money that has been set aside for the 9/11 commission ($3 million, in case you forgot). I started to look, but couldn't find a good enough source that would detail department budgets at that detailed a level. Well, Dwight Meredith over at P.L.A. has done it for me. Specifically, he compares the cost of several investigations (not just the one of Clinton) to what has been allocated for the 9/11 investigation. For example, we spent $17 million investigating whether Mike Espy took an illegal gift (football tickets). Is that more important then the role of intelligence failures in the leadup to 9/11? You tell me.

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