U.S. to Spend Billions More to Alter Security Systems - New York Times: "'After 9/11, we had to show how committed we were by spending hugely greater amounts of money than ever before, as rapidly as possible,' said Representative Christopher Cox, a California Republican who is the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. 'That brought us what we might expect, which is some expensive mistakes. This has been the difficult learning curve of the new discipline known as homeland security.'"