Headline: "Officials worry of summer terror attack."

From Fox News: "A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president's budget until Cheney's office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information."

So when Dick Durbin is not happy with Homeland Security or the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the CIA, then is he going to hold up funding for them to? I hope he does for the sake of being consistent.

Otherwise, this smells like a cheap political stunt in advance of an election year where Sen. Durbin hopes we forget he implied our troops in Gitmo were like Nazi war criminals.

We won't forget Mr. Durbin's election in 1996 was an accident brought on by defeating a candidate that had one gaffe at the end of his campaign. Durbin's statements about Gitmo and now this stunt with Cheney's office show his lack of gravitas to be called a U.S. senator.

Mark W. Johnson

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