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Senate Passes Record Defense Budget, but Are We Safer?

Is big money making America safer?   Plus, a suicide bombing rocks Afghanistan, and ABC-TV and the politics of September 11th.

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By Warren Olney • Sep 8, 2006 • 1h 0m Listen

If Congress does nothing else between now and election day, it will pass another record defense spending bill--even though the Pentagon says it can't keep track of the money.Will more than $500 billion make America safer?Do the House and the Senate care more about oversight or pet projects? Also, an update on today's suicide bombing in Kabul and a conversation about ABC's The Path to 9/11. Is it a docudrama or political propaganda?

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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