Political Quotes

“In this environment where we do have a lower threshold for worrying about terrorism and worrying about what comes across our borders, he made the linkage, based on his experience dealing in the field of bioterrorism and the agriterrorism arena and the field of intelligence, that we are moving in one direction of bioterrorism to close our borders to the potential for counterfeit agents, potential bioterror agents coming in. My question is, Does he agree with a recent op-ed published on July 16 in the Washington Times by a former FBI agent linking bioterrorism and prescription drugs and reimportation? The agent states: During my 3 decades with the FBI, however, I worked with other Federal agencies whose main goal was preventing illegal narcotics from crossing our borders. When going after prescription drug shipments it usually was large quantities, mostly acting on tips. Neither we nor the 3 Federal agencies we cooperated with on such efforts--the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Customs Service--had enough personnel to go after prescription drug smuggling at the time. With the massive new threat of terrorism, we have even less resources to devote to such activities.”