A November 24, 1997 Time magazine piece, “America the Vulnerable,” stated that:
officials in Washington are deeply worried about what some of them call “strategic crime.” By that they mean the merging of the output from a government’s arsenals, like Saddam’s biological weapons, with a group of semi-independent terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them.
Who were these officials? Intelligence community officials? Clinton White House officials? What intelligence did these officials base their “deep worry” on? And did President Clinton base these remarks made on November 15, 1997 in Sacramento on the same intelligence that prompted government “officials” to be “deeply worried” about a Saddam-supplied bioterror attack on U.S. soil?
think about it [Iraq’s disarmament] in terms of the innocent Japanese people that died in the subway when the sarin gas was released; and how important it is for every responsible government in the world to do everything that can possibly be done not to let big stores of chemical or biological weapons fall into the wrong hands, not to let irresponsible people develop the capacity to put them in warheads on missiles or put them in briefcases that could be exploded in small rooms. And I say this not to frighten you.
Was this threat cited in Time and in the president’s speech addressed in a Presidential Daily Brief or some other official government assessment?
