On September 10, 2001, Attorney General John “Ashcroft submitted his first budget. He asked for increased funds for sixty-eight programs in his Department of Justice, not one of which directly involved counterterrorism. Even worse, he rejected a request by the FBI for $58 million for 149 new counterterrorism field agents. He also proposed a $65 million cut (from $109 million to $44 million) in grants to the states and local authorities to increase their counterterrorism preparedness.”
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 183