Thursday, Jan. 3, 2002 | 8:43 a.m.
A Dec. 30 letter, about budget cuts being the reason for the government's inability to stop the Sept. 11 disaster, is misleading.
The problem is not lack of money, it is other things like the FBI wasting time on local crimes that have been federalized that could be dealt with by local police.
The other problem is that federal law enforcement, by law, could not investigate subversive organizations until a terrorist or criminal act had been perpetrated. In the name of civil liberties, those laws were changed, making it almost impossible to stop terrorism before it happens.
Now, in response to terrorism, we have a police state in the making.
MATT DAVIS
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