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Too Many Holes in USG case / McClatchy
From McClatchy, a discussion of discrepancies in what the USG has asserted. Read it all. Here is just the beginning: The Obama administration’s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against…
Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?/ Wired
Noah Schactman has an extremely detailed, useful piece on the anthrax mailings in Wired. Noah did his homework. The 72 comments are also interesting. UPDATE: Podcast with Noah here. Extracts of the magazine story follow: In February 2003, anthrax became part of the rationale for invading Iraq. Colin Powell went to the United Nations Security…
Wikileaks Afghanistan documents: What do they reveal about the war?
Ninety-two thousand Wikileaks documents were provided in advance of their public release today to the NY Times, the Guardian (UK) and Der Spiegel (Germany). The NY Times opens with this comment: A trove of military documents made public on Sunday by an organization called WikiLeaks reflects deep suspicions among American officials that Pakistan’s military spy…
With security spotty, many had access to anthrax at Army lab/McClatchy, ProPublica
Greg Gordon and Stephen Engelberg continue their important series of reports for McClatchy and ProPublica, here focusing on the inadequate security at USAMRIID and potentially wide access to Ivins’ anthrax spores by 419 or more people: The Army laboratory identified by prosecutors as the source of the anthrax that killed five people in the fall…
Very worthwhile video of Ralph Baric briefing Congressional staff and members on February 26, 2020. What did they know and when did they know it? Plenty. Long ago.
Amazing how much they all knew back then. And then denied. Especially notable with respect to treatment, Baric points out the need for early diagnosis and antiviral treatment during the first five days of illness. They knew it was too late for it to work, when remdesivir was given late during a hospitalization. Americans’ bodies…
Indemnifying Pharma for Ebola Vaccines: Recipe for Problems?
When did pharmaceutical manufacturers demand to be indemnified by governments, when previously asked to produce vaccines? First time: 1976 swine flu. One soldier died of swine flu at Fort Dix, the virus never did spread through the US population, but 45 million Americans were vaccinated with an unecessary vaccine, several hundred developed Guillain Barre syndrome…