"I think that in the emergency situations like we have with potentially weapons of mass destruction, the agent in the field needs as much flexibility as he can and the decision of probable cause as to what’s going to occur needs to be made not in headquarters and not by the attorney general and not by a special court in Washington, but by the agent in the field who needs to respond immediately."
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Mark Riebling. Full transcript online Interview, broadcast on The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News (June 4, 2002).
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