02/01/2010
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"This is really an appeal to the President to designate the Vice President to do this."
"we are asking the Vice President to direct the National Security Council to review all strategic biodefense documents."
"the bottom-line conclusion of this report is that we are better defended than we were in 2001 after the anthrax attacks, but really the State of our biodefense is inadequate, and we are unprepared for..."
"So I mentioned before that if you had to choose one department, it would be the Department of Homeland Security because this is a homeland security threat."