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When we think about that, and the fact they're saying we still need you to be vigilant, we don't know what's happened in the last 24-plus hours of this guy. those suspicious package reports are important as they track those down. >> absolutely. the ability for law enforcement to communicate with the citizenry and for folks to be able to phone in or use anonymous tip lines to communicate with law enforcement in this rear is a blessing for law enforcement. chris always yells at me to put my professor hat on. to put this in context, during the 1970s, that decade -- that was the golden age of terr...

So how do you balance that with not overwhelming authority in the lower 48 have we been seeing reports with suspicious package reports and actually enter up enveloping more resources that necessary? >> well, i think the trick is to be local. in the boston area, we want to overwhelm the police. they don't know what's going to be valuable. they want everything. in the rest of the country, it's business as usual. so overwhelming the police there is going to have the same derogatory effect it had over the past 12 years. >> has see something, say something, been an effective tool? >> it hasn't. we'...

Joining me now is bruce schneider, the chief security. we have charlie pierce still with us from newton. bruce, you've written about this a lot. about the kind of ways in which we've responding to 9/11 and what we call security feeder. when something like this does happen, people are going to be more alert, right? and the authorities are telling them to report things and there's some information that we need to get out of those folks, so how do you balance that with not overwhelming authority in the lower 48 have we been seeing reports with suspicious package reports and actually enter up enve...

Need to get out of those folks, so how do you balance that with not overwhelming authority in the lower 48 have we been seeing reports with suspicious package reports and actually enter up enveloping more resources that necessary? >> well, i think the trick is to be local. in the boston area, we want to overwhelm the police. they don't know what's going to be valuable. they want everything. in the rest of the country, it's business as usual. so overwhelming the police there is going to have the same derogatory effect it had over the past 12 years. >> has see something, say something, been an e...

some pretty deep ties with the white house? and why is it that the company with deep ties to the white house, the company that just got a big contract for a drug that's not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up we're going to talk with a member of the company's board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the "los angeles times" but since then have learned a lot more. investigator drew griffin is keeping them honest. >> reporter: it's just another good business deal for billionaire investor ...