OBAMA ADVISER URGES PUBLIC-PRIVATE TEAMING TO TACKLE BIOTERROR

/ October 23, 2008 at 5:00 AM
A top adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is urging greater cooperation between the U.S. government and civilian experts to prevent bioterrorism and cyberwarfare. Richard Danzig has repeatedly argued this year that intelligence officials must reach out to American biologists to prevent bioterrorism, a threat he puts second only to a nuclear weapon being detonated in an American city. "I particularly worry about Anthrax," Danzig told reporters Oct. 2 at a breakfast in Washington, noting it could be used...

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