Bush pledges 'unprecedented' spending on security in U.S
Following the July 7 attacks in London, which killed 56 people aboard three trains on the London Underground and on a double-decker bus, critics here noted that U.S. homeland security spending was skewed strongly toward protection of airports and commercial aviation, with far slighter emphasis on protecting rail and subway facilities.
Bush, in a speech billed as primarily a defense of the Patriot Act, which bolsters law-enforcement powers against terror suspects, offered an extensive defense of efforts by the administration to protect ports and mass transit facilities.
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