Bush Eyeballs Heavy Tech Spending — Declan McCullagh:

President Bush is asking Congress to grant federal police hundreds of millions of dollars for surveillance, information-sharing and computer upgrades.

In his proposed 2003 budget sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, Bush proposed an unprecedented increase on spending for anti-terrorism efforts, saying that doing so “recognizes the new realities confronting our nation, and funds the war against terrorism and the defense of our homeland.”

Because the complex document is merely a proposal, Congress will spend much of this year wrangling over what form the final budget will take for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2002. Wired