Barack Obama actually said...

It is the policy of the United States that a robust and productive scientific enterprise that utilizes biological select agents and toxins (BSAT) is essential to national security.

Context

Executive Order 13546—Optimizing the Security of Biological Select Agents and Toxins in the United States

07/01/2010

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