New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Fires Back At Vice President Joe Biden Over Terror Trial Cost

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    Archived photoNew York, NY – Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his claim that it would cost $200 million per year to secure the city during a trial of Sept. 11 suspects in Manhattan, after Vice President Joe Biden questioned the figure.

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    Bloomberg said Tuesday that the city’s estimate is “reasonable” and said no one in the Obama administration questioned it until now. He said city officials have discussed the figures with officials in the White House budget office as well as the Justice Department.

    In an interview Sunday on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Biden said, “The mayor came along and said the cost for providing security to hold this trial is X hundreds of millions of dollars, which I think is much more than would be needed.”

    Bloomberg said the estimates are “based on many years of experience and knowing what the costs are in a big city of deploying the greatest police department in the world.”

    The city has refused to release a detailed accounting of what the total cost includes.

    Bloomberg initially supported the Obama administration’s decision to try the Sept. 11 suspects in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan.

    But he recently changed his mind and has been lobbying against it, citing the cost and disruption to life downtown.

    Biden said Sunday that Obama is waiting for a recommendation from the attorney general to see whether there are other options.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What does Biden the bafoon know about costs. He lives his life in a bubble of corruption and high living. This is why Democrats are resigning every day. They know their fun in the sun is over. They are running like roaches when a kitchen light is turned on.

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    14 years ago

    lets see on one side there is a man who knows and practices business worth about 11 billion and on the other side there is …………? which one knows better ? Its amazing to me that Kalid whatever has a better lawyer than Martin Grossman. Do you think he will even get the death penalty?

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    D
    14 years ago

    Biden, ran a small state budget. I’ll bet on Borough in NY City is more then the entire state budget in Dalleware. Biden, oich mir an expert…