DHS seeks 6.8 percent budget increase Published: Feb. 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/04/dhs_seeks_68_percent_budget _increase/5745/print_view/
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was allocated $50.5 billion in President George W. Bush's 2009 budget targets, the department said Monday. The request is a 6.8-percent increase over its current budget, the department said in a news release. Safety and security issues were aggressively addressed, Bush said when he released his budget. Among the funding requests in the DHS budget were: -- An increase of $442.4 million to hire, train and equip 2,200 new Border Patrol Agents. -- Funding of $140 million to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which requires travelers to present acceptable documentation at U.S. air, land and sea ports-of-entry after June 1, 2009. -- Another $100 million for E-Verify, a program allowing employers to use an automated system to confirm employment eligibility of both citizen and non-citizen new hires. -- A request for $334.2 million to support Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, which provides resources for development of global nuclear detection architecture. -- Another $34.5 million for the Office of Health Affairs' BioWatch, an environmental monitoring system designed for early warning of bioterrorism incidents. -- Total funding of $1.3 billion for Department-wide efforts to counter IED threats. C United Press International. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be reproduced, redistributed, or manipulated in any form. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
