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August 29, 2007 Veteran GOP spokeswoman heads to private sector by Jonathan Martin RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt is leaving the comfy confines of First Street S.E. to ply her PR skills in the corporate world. Schmitt, a SoCal native, will serve as director of corporate communications for Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., a Rockville, Md.-based biopharma company…

 From the Times: Leaders and citizens in Germany, one of America’s closest allies, simmered with barely contained fury on Thursday over reports that American intelligence had tapped into Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone… Ms. Merkel herself angrily demanded assurances from President Obama that her cellphone was not the target of an American intelligence tap as soon…

I would suggest that those attorneys who work for the Maine Medical Board look up the law regarding misinformation.  They also should be informed that they do not make the law:  law is made by legislatures and Congress.  They have not been given the authority to create new crimes.  My opinions, which are grounded in…

Here, the WaPo goes into the tawdry story of how DHHS’ Preparedness group and BARDA got prototypes for a machine to produce reusable N95 masks, then dropped the ball despite their $1.5B yearly funding for ‘preparedness.’ From  the NY Times: Few in the protective equipment industry are surprised by the shortages, because they’ve been predicted for…

I did not have to look far to find the source of that meaningless little factoid used by the Goshen hospital spokesperson and the British Columbia chief medical officer:  “Influenza is the most frequent cause of death from a vaccine-preventable disease in the United States.”   It was the very first sentence in a flu vaccine…

From the Sydney Morning Herald comes this piece that says our FDA found CSL’s “investigation” of why so many children had seizures post-vaccination to be entirely inadequate.  If you don’t find the problem then you don’t have to make any expensive changes to your manufacturing facility.  And you are not liable for willful misconduct, which…