Obama slashed Office for Bombing Protection
I don’t even know what the Office of Bombing Protection could possibly do to prevent the bombing in Boston, but the UK’s Daily Mail reports that a former Bush Administration official, Robert Liscouski, claims that the Obama Administration has slashed funding for that office from $20 million to $11 million.
Today the OBP describes its mission as ‘enhanc[ing] the Nation’s ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate the terrorist use of explosives against critical infrastructure, the private sector, and Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial entities.’
Its website says it works to ‘coordinate national and intergovernmental bombing prevention efforts’ and ‘enhance counter-IED capabilities.’
I guess if you believe that government is efficient enough to protect us and can save us from ourselves, you’d believe that an Office of Bombing Protection would be useful and you’d be outraged that Obama cut their funding. But me, not so much. The only thing that could have foiled that plot yesterday would be better police work or a more vigilant public. Certainly not a bunch of bureaucrats sitting in a conference room noodling about the subject.
Liscouski works for a security company now, so I’m sure he thinks more funding would be the answer since he can try to get his grubby little paws on the cash.
Thanks to Preston for the link.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
Yeah. ‘Cause adding another level of bureaucracy or another agency with whom to coordinate anything makes operations soooo much more efficient.
This must be the only office that was left out of the presser this morning in Boston.
Another example of overlapping and contradictory bureaucracies. When did THIS one come into existence? And when can we make it go away, thereby cutting the FedGub budget and growth?
Tell me again why the FedGub budget and spending “talks” are solely concentrated on the entitlements programs, and not on the bureaucracies?
AN Office for Bombing Protection is as useful and as needed as the Bureau of the Public Debt!!!!
Why am I not surprised that there even IS an Office for Bombing Protection? Or was, if that’s the case… whatever.
It’s like those nesting dolls. You just keep opening the next one, and there’s another one, so you open that one and there’s another one, and you open that one and there’s another one….
I see a way to save $11 million and still have bad things happen…
About as useful as DHS and by the way how come they didn’t protect us, I know they are to busy arming themselves.
Imagine if that office were ever bombed.. then we’d need an Office for Protection against Bombing the Office of Bombing Protection.
Seriously, if Obama cut this budget, surely that’s something we can all get behind? Now about that other $11M…
I think it’s a safe bet that they’d be either just as or even less competent than the TSA!
And by slash you mean allocated those funds to be spent elsewhere.
They’re too busy keeping the Fort Hood “workplace violent guy” alive, churning out powerpoint briefings telling everyone to watch out for catholics, veterans, and mormons. They have their hands full NOT sending jihadists to the gallows. I could go on.
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Meh. I’m going with that.
The worst that Obama can be blamed in this specific regard…
Another example of overlapping and contradictory bureaucracies.
Yup. Wasted money, not that he needs to do much to prove his ability in that regard.
Worst thing we can do is to hyper-partisanalize (Yes…that’s a word…I just made it). Every calorie of effort we spend (and I mean “we” as in “We, the People”) pointing our fingers at each other is a calorie of effort wasted.
Turns out its an office within DHS. The mission statement is kind of vague (eye roll), but it seems to be a planning office involved in information sharing and training specifically for IED related incidents. I don’t have a problem with that mission but couldn’t that be part of the FBI bomb squad’s gig?
More info here: http://www.dhs.gov/obp
But of course that won’t stop Hoyer and Bwaney Fwank from bleating about how more government would have stopped this problem.
I swear, these fuckers act like they’re part of the solution rather than the part of the problem they are.
Step 1: Decide to write a process defining the steps
Step 2: Define the steps to writing the process defining the steps
etc. Probably their best and highest use is stacking the paperwork they generate around high value targets as sandbags.
@14 Why write when you can just regurgitate the same memos and reports written a few years ago? Copy and paste, I wouldn’t put it pass them. But if they do have something original to say they’ll find it from the EOD boys in the Army. And those guys don’t just know how to handle your once in a rainy-day homemade explosive.