Saturday, December 04, 2004
Good Riddance to Tommy Thompson
In the Washington Post:
In the Washington Post:
- Thompson used an afternoon news conference about his departure to reveal that he worries 'every single night' about 'food poisoning' on a massive scale.
'I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do,' Thompson said. 'And we are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that.'
Some experts have warned about the vulnerability of the U.S. food system. It is unusual for a top administration official to publicly point out such a problem in such vivid terms.
