New York deserves the money since it’s not their choice to host them here, but do they really expect the trials to last more than a year? How much are the legal fees going to be? Is this listed as a stimulus (ie, shovel ready) project for NY?
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday said the costs of hosting the federal trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other suspected September 11 plotters would top $200 million annually and formally requested that Washington cover the costs.
“New York’s financial resources are in short supply, and we have been forced to reduce our Police Department’s headcount,” Bloomberg wrote in a letter to White House Budget Director Peter Orszag dated January 5 and released to media on Wednesday.
“Securing the trial will require us to pull existing personnel from crime prevention efforts around the city and require significant overtime expenses,” the mayor wrote.
“As 9/11 was an attack on the entire nation, we need the federal government to shoulder the significant costs we will incur and ease this burden.”
Bloomberg estimated the cost for security would be $216 million for the first year and $206 million annually thereafter. Noting the city was not seeking a “blank check,” he said policing the 2004 Republican Convention cost New York $50 million. He said that event lasted one week while the trials could last years.
#20 But, but Europe & the rest of the world will like the US afterwards.
Re: Richard #13… “I’m all for outsourcing these trials to India.”
LOL! Trial by phone.
Better still outsource them to China. They hold their trials to a higher standard… 24th floor balcony if I recall.
How to get the money:
Have a lottery to grant button pressing rights for the execution!
Now is not the time to get cheap. It seems republicans don’t mind blowing billions on war, but get stingy when its time for cleanup.
And once again the right wing nuts, neo-cons, tea baggers, LIEBERTARIANS, and Republicans show why they hate America. It must be that damned Constitution.
I take it there is no spending limit on the Constitution. Follow the money into Democrat pockets.
RBG
This Terrorism bullcrap has gone too far, why is there so much evidence that is was an inside job?
sure there are real terrorists, but this was surely just cashing in on someone else marketing to put it bluntly.
Four months after the disclosure project was presented at the washing press club. 2001 – they needed a detractor, a big one, they got one.
Distraction of the year, distraction of the decade, every time people get serious about disclosing ufo and alternate energy info and other “conspiracy theories”, some shadow govt pricks create some disaster to take our minds off what really matters.
lets get these bastard puppet masters once and for all, anyone know where they live?
im sure there are many pissed off real terrorists who would love to get them with a crotch bomb, not just for blaming them but also doing their job for them.
T says “we cant have heathens organising our wars, who will get the virgins?”
Maybe we just put all the real terrorists and these shadow govt jizzrags in gitmo together and broadcast them playing nicely..
we are old enough to know the truth, sure some literalistics may crap their pants but we can then move forward and not stagnate like we currently are.
i’m sure religion can co-exist with the truth, there has to be some form of moral guidance, sure as hell not coming from the govt. personal;y i believe it should come from within. not out of fear nor expectations of reward.
people say the govt couldn’t possibly be behind this, well what about Watergate, JFK, mariln, Tesla inventions being shut down (although some believe he did this himself to prevent it getting into the wrong hands) etc and all other things past, politicians and business are human and subject to greed and powermongering, nothing new there.
Most of the govt employees don’t even know they have a hand up their ass guiding their every move.
They are dangerous because they are partially invisible. uncover these bastards and make them accountable.
think more.
“Please do not disturb – People sleeping”
#25 And keeping with the program you, once again, show how conFused and detached from reality are.
#27 Can I direct you to one of the finest tin foil hat stores?
#28, ‘dro,
What? You won’t lend him one of your’s?
#28: i think all of his hat’s have been made by “them”.
(but they are real shiny ~ so that’s good right?)
you gotta produce your own foil these days!