Bill Clinton: “If I might just add to that, the short answer to your question, of course, is yes, we're going to review this. And let…”

“If I might just add to that, the short answer to your question, of course, is yes, we're going to review this. And let me give you one example: Ken told me last night at dinner, he said, ``If we export substantially the same product to the same person, if we have to get one permit to do it, we'll have to get a permit every time we want to do the same thing, over and over again. They always give it to us, but we have to wait 6 months, and it puts us behind the competitive arc.'' Now, that's something that ought to be changed, and we'll try to change that. We also know that some of our export controls, rules and regulations, are a function of the realities of the cold war which aren't there anymore. But what the Vice President was trying to say, and he said so well--I just want to reemphasize--our biggest security problem in the future may well be the proliferation of nuclear and nonnuclear, like biological and chemical, weapons of mass destruction to small, by our standards, countries with militant governments who may not care what the damage to their own people could be. So that's something we have to watch very closely. But apart from that, we want to move this much more quickly, and we'll try to slash a lot of the time delays where we ought to be doing these things. Scientific Visualization”