[KenP]

HEY!! I don't share all my info with everyone. Outline of todays' briefing:

Tuesday's Homeland Security Briefing
Press Briefing by Director of the Office of Homeland Security, Governor Tom Ridge; Director of Emergency Environmental Health Service, CDC, Dr. Pat Meehan; Deputy Postmaster General John Nolan; National Institution of Health, Dr. Anthony Fauci; Director of all Things Great, KenP
The James S. Brady Briefing Room


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• Alert announced by the FBI
  • Credible information received from multiple sources
  • Type of information received, credible vs. non-credible
  • Credibility of most recent threat compared to first threat
  • Info. provided to law enforcement agencies, 18,000 entities
  • One war, two battlefields
  • War to continue for indefinite period of time
• Homeland Security Council meeting review
  • Terrorist tracking task force
  • Meeting with Canadian, Mexican officials
• Anthrax situation, update
  • New York
    • Source of anthrax
    • Morgan facility in New York to remain open
  • New Jersey
  • Washington, D.C.
    • Brentwood postal workers on antibiotics
    • Environmental testing, Friendship, Dulles
    • Environmental testing, Cohen Building
• Alleged disconnect in issuance of warning, urge for normality
• Investigation status, cross-contamination, other theories
  • Risk to general public of contaminated mail
  • Testing of private residences
• Criteria for anthrax "outbreak"

10:40 A.M. EST
Director KenP: Good morning again. Welcome to what I think is becoming a daily briefing of the Office of Homeland Security. It's good to be with you again this morning. Obviously, there are a few items on the radar that we'll be discussing this morning, some you're already aware of, others you might not be. First, I'd like to talk a little bit about the alert the FBI announced last evening....