http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/01/le.00.htmlSenator Shelby, this whole issue of Osama bin Laden, the threat that has apparently prompted the U.S. military in the Middle East to go on the highest state of alert, to remove ships from ports in the Persian Gulf, in the Mediterranean, how serious of a threat is this?
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BLITZER: And I know, Senator Feinstein, you're a member of the Intelligence Committee as well.
FEINSTEIN: Right.
BLITZER: Why, if the U.S. has Osama bin Laden as so-called terrorist number one, the most wanted person on the U.S. list, why is it so hard to find Osama bin Laden?
FEINSTEIN: Well, that's a good question, I think. One of the things that has begun to concern me very much as to whether we really have our house in order, intelligence staff have told me that there is a major probability of a terrorist incident within the """next three months""". (this was a July 1 2000) transcript So Senator Shelby is right. This is a very serious concern.
The vice president, when he spoke to the Democratic caucus, mentioned that the administration was going to be working on the issue of homeland defense, around this particular issue.
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And I think we need to strengthen the administration in the coordination of counterterrorism effort. Give a director of an office budget authority. The amount of money spent on terrorism is about $13 billion a year -- counterterrorism. And yet we don't really know what it's going for.
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