Powers also faults the Bush administration for letting its dislike of all things Clinton get in the way of continuing the antiterrorism program begun under its predecessor.

Because the city, with a population of 900,000, is one of the nation's 27 largest, it was eligible to participate in a federal antiterrorism program.

The government's antiterrorism program, the second phase in a effort known as the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, has also been criticized by privacy advocates as overly intrusive.

It said Mr. Cummins's office had a "well-managed" antiterrorism program and "very successful" counternarcotics efforts.

Many of the responses in the American report have the tone of a catalog, underscoring the administration's intention to get other governments to seek American help in formulating their own antiterrorism programs.

Some European Union diplomats are described as annoyed that the Bush administration chose to approach individual countries to take part in the antiterrorism program instead of making it a Europe-wide effort.

New York and Wisconsin said yesterday that they had withdrawn from a controversial antiterrorism program that mines data from public and private sources to aid law enforcement.

This mission aspect also includes providing personal protection to senior Air Force leaders and other officials, as well as supervising an extensive antiterrorism program in geographic areas of heightened terrorist activity.

He attacked the government's antiterrorism program, saying it had not done enough to root out Muslim extremism.

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