This is part of prudent efforts to protect our interests in the Gulf,

doing everything that's prudent, everything that we reasonably can do to protect the city.

There are some who believe we are going to have an electronic Pearl Harbor, so to speak, before we really make (computer security) the kind of priority that many of us believe it deserves to be,

I'm told by the law enforcement officials that they expect probably 20 bomb threats a day. Hopefully, all 20 will be hoaxes, but strange people do strange things.

reduce the pressure on the nuclear trigger.

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.