here at home. that s primarily the responsibility of the department of health and human services and specifically the food and drug administration. and i used to be the chairman of the military department national war college. we need aircraft carriers and bombers and all much that but we need the science and technology we get out of organizations like fda. what we have to understand is that organizations like the fda are just as important to the security of this nation as is the u.s. army and air force. we have to continue to focus both on the basic science research and then what we call the applied science research. jenna: when we talk about bioterror it s easy to think about movies or different story lines we ve seen on this type of scenario. when you think about someone trying to poison a water supply it leads to the question of how easy is it to do that and how do we actually protect ourselves against a thing like that? the good news is the water supply is one of the most diffic