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Ex-President Bill Clinton said Sunday that the Bush administration has not done enough to increase port security since the 9/11 attacks, calling the oversight unbelievable.
Addressing the Centennial Celebration at Pace University in New York, Clinton complained:
"I still really can't believe we only check 5 percent of our containers at all the ports in America when we've had now for four years a study saying that unless we do 10 to 20 percent, there's no deterrent effect at all. " The former president made no mention of his own role advising a Dubai company on how to overcome American opposition to its purchase of operations at several U.S. ports - a move congressional critics, including his wife, have called a national security risk.
Instead, Mr. Clinton stuck to more general national security themes, telling the Pace audience: "It's important to increase our efforts to reduce the threat of chemical, biological and nuclear substances being in the wrong hands ... It's important to increase homeland security."
He also said it was "important to continually modernize the military."
Addressing the Centennial Celebration at Pace University in New York, Clinton complained:
"I still really can't believe we only check 5 percent of our containers at all the ports in America when we've had now for four years a study saying that unless we do 10 to 20 percent, there's no deterrent effect at all. " The former president made no mention of his own role advising a Dubai company on how to overcome American opposition to its purchase of operations at several U.S. ports - a move congressional critics, including his wife, have called a national security risk.
Instead, Mr. Clinton stuck to more general national security themes, telling the Pace audience: "It's important to increase our efforts to reduce the threat of chemical, biological and nuclear substances being in the wrong hands ... It's important to increase homeland security."
He also said it was "important to continually modernize the military."