This document is a testimony given by Jr. Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division, Henry L. Hinton, to the Committee on Veteran’s Affairs and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, addressing four issues. First, “intelligence agencies’ judgments about the threat of terrorism. Second, [it] will highlight the importance and benefits of threat and risk assessments to provide a sound basis for targeting the nation’s investments in combating terrorism—a widely recognized sound business practice we have discussed in our reports and testimonies. Third, preliminary observations from [the GAO’s] ongoing work on the science behind the biological and chemical terrorist threat, with some focus on biological agents. Finally, [it] provides some of the overall observations on public health.”
Observations on Biological Terrorism and Public Health Initiatives
- June 29, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 1976-2000
