On January 10, 2001, “a Department of Energy advisory group chaired by former Senate majority leader Howard Baker [R-TN] and former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler concluded that the ‘most urgent unmet national security threat to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction or weapons-usable material in Russia could be stolen and sold to terrorists or hostile nation states and used against American troops abroad or citizens at home.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 73