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Date: June 22, 2007 3:22:28 PM PDT
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Subject: Then and Now -- Remember, "9-11 Changed Everything"
http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/
Friday, June 22, 2007
The CIA's [OLD] Family Jewels
CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden announced today that the Agency is
declassifying the full 693-page file amassed on CIA's illegal
activities by order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger in 1973
-- the so-called "family jewels."
Only a few dozen heavily-censored pages of this file have
previously been declassified, although multiple Freedom of
Information Act requests have been filed over the years for the
documents. Gen. Hayden called the file "a glimpse of a very
different time and a very different Agency." The papers are
scheduled for public release on Monday, June 25.
At this rate, only our grandchildren --in the year 2041-- will ever
find out about (or have any opportunity to object to -- too late)
what Bush is doing to us today ...
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Francis Boyle, an international law authority, says pursuant to
national strategy directives adopted by Bush in 2002, the Pentagon
"is now gearing up for military use of biological warfare without
prior public knowledge and review."
Boyle said the Pentagon's Chemical and Biological Defense Program
was revised in 2003 to endorse "first use" -- "pre-emptive" strikes
using bioweapons in war.
The U.S. is actively "plotting, planning, and scheming how to use
biowarfare."
U.S. Corporations Aren't Disclosing
Biological Warfare Research Work
by Sherwood Ross | Jun 22 2007 - 9:50am
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/8251
A number of major pharmaceutical corporations and biotech firms are
concealing the nature of the biological warfare research work they
are doing for the U.S. government.
Since their funding comes from the National Institutes of Health,
the recipients are obligated under NIH guidelines to make their
activities public. Not disclosing their ops raises the suspicion
they may be engaged in forbidden kinds of germ warfare research.
According to the Sunshine Project, a nonprofit arms control
watchdog operating out of Austin, Texas, among corporations holding
back information about their activities are:
Abbott Laboratories, BASF Plant Science, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
DuPont Central Research and Development, Eli Lilly Corp., Embrex,
GlaxoSmithKline, Hoffman-LaRoche, Merck & Co., Monsanto, Pfizer
Inc., Schering-Plough Research Institute, and Syngenta Corp. of
Switzerland.
In case you didn't know it, the White House since 9/11 has called
for spending $44-billion on biological warfare research, a sum
unprecedented in world history, and an obliging Congress has
authorized it.
Thus, some of the deadliest pathogens known to humankind are being
rekindled in hundreds of labs in pharmaceutical houses, university
biology departments, and on military bases.
An international convention the U.S. signed forbids it to
stockpile, manufacture or use biological weapons. But if the U.S.
won't say what's going down in those laboratories other countries
are going to assume the worst and a biowarfare arms race will be
on, if it isn't already.
Sunshine says failure to disclose operations also puts corporate
employees involved in this work at risk. Only 8,500, or 16%, of the
52,000 workers employed at the top 20 U.S. biotech firms work at an
NIH guidelines-compliant company, Sunshine says.
Francis Boyle, an international law authority at the University of
Illinois, Champaign, says pursuant to national strategy directives
adopted by Bush in 2002, the Pentagon "is now gearing up to fight
and 'win' biological warfare without prior public knowledge and
review." Boyle said the Pentagon's Chemical and Biological Defense
Program was revised in 2003 to endorse "first-use" strike in war.
Boyle said the program includes Red Teaming, which he described as
"plotting, planning, and scheming how to use biowarfare."
Besides the big pharmaceutical houses, the biowarfare buildup is
getting an enthusiastic response from academia, which sees new
funds flowing from Washington's horn of plenty. "American
universities have a long history of willingly permitting their
research agenda, researchers, institutes and laboratories to be co-
opted, corrupted, and perverted by the Pentagon and the CIA," Boyle
says.
What's more, the Bush administration is pouring billions in
biowarfare research while some very real killers, such as
influenza, are not being cured.
In 2006, the NIH got $120 million to combat influenza, which kills
about 36,000 Americans annually but it got $1.76 billion for
biodefense, much of it spent to research anthrax. How many people
has anthrax killed lately? Well, let's see, there were those five
people killed in the mysterious attacks on Congress of October,
2001 --- attacks that suspiciously emanated from a government
laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md.
One would think the FBI might apprehend the perpetrator whose
attack shut down the Congress of the United States but nearly six
years have gone by and it hasn't caught anybody. Seem a bit odd to
you? Some folks suspect the anthrax attack was an inside job to
panic the country into a huge biowarfare buildup to "protect"
America from "terrorists."
Milton Leitenberg, of the University of Maryland's School of Public
Policy, though, says the risk of terrorists and nonstate actors
using biological agents against the U.S. "has been systematically
and deliberately exaggerated" by administration scare-mongering.
And molecular biologist Jonathan King of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology says, "the Bush administration launched a major program
which threatens to put the health of our people at far greater risk
than the hazard to which they claimed to have been responding."
King added President Bush's policies "do not increase the security
of the American people" but "bring new risk to our population of
the most appalling kind."
In the absence of any credible foreign threat, Sunshine's Hammond
said, "Our biowarfare research is defending ourselves from
ourselves. It's a dog chasing its tail." Sadly, it looks more and
more every day like a mad dog.
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