Custom-made boat.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

Two years ago, Congress gave the Washington area $324 million for an anti-terrorism project. Three Washington Post reporters looked into how it had been spent:

"The district funded a popular jobs program, outfitted police with leather jackets, and assessed environmental problems on property primed for redevelopment. In Virginia, a small volunteer fire department spent $350,000 on a custom-made fire boat. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments used some of the money for janitorial service. In Maryland, the money is buying Prince George's County prosecutors an office security system." It's those Prince...