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I don't recall gas masks ever being illegal, and here in NY at least they
have been doing a brisk business in them since the the 11th
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> From: klewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:54:23 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] House Members got gas masks...
>
> _ I recall seeing reports that the Clinton administration made the
> sale of gas masks to citizens illegal. Does anyone have any
> definite information as to whether or not this was a true report?
> If so, is it still illegal for us peons to possess gas masks?
> -----
> <http://www.rollcall.com> _
> September 24, 2001 Gas Masks Become Hot Topic By Susan
> Crabtree <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Even before the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York
> City, the Capitol was not wholly unprepared for a chemical or
> biological threat.
> Protective masks for every House Member and floor staffer
> were placed in an area readily accessible to lawmakers in the
> Capitol roughly a year ago to guard against a chemical or germ
> warfare assault, according to senior House staffers.
> "There were plenty of meetings where this was discussed and it
> was put in place," a knowledgeable House GOP aide said.
> Another House staffer added that masks are available in
> multiple places within the Capitol building.
> "It's more than just one or two places," the source said. "There
> are masks all over the Capitol."
> After President Bush addressed a joint session of Congress
> Thursday night, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the ranking
> member on the House Administration Committee,
> acknowledged that the Capitol building has been stocked with
> protective masks, although he did not specify where they were
> located.
> "We want everyone to be as safe as possible and we're taking
> all the safeguards necessary to make sure they are," Hoyer said.
> House Administration Chairman Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who won
> the top spot on the panel in January, said in an interview that he
> was not aware of the presence of anything akin to gas masks
> being available in the Capitol. But he said that the issue of
> supplying both Members and staff with masks was raised many
> times during briefings last week.
> "There's been discussion of that," he said. "We live in a
> different world than we did before September 11th. Now we
> owe it to everybody to consider every form of terrorist threat
> imaginable. Everything is on the table for discussion."
> Ney added that the committee was looking for guidance from
> the Capitol Police Board on whether to distribute masks to all
> House offices and staff. The board is comprised of the House
> and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the Architect of the Capitol.
> "The Capitol Hill Police Board will make that decision," Ney
> said. "I am not opposed to discussing this issue. Anything that
> helps the safety and security for the visitors of the Capitol, if it
> helps their security, it's a priority."
> Citing security concerns, Capitol Police spokesman Lt. Dan
> Nichols declined to discuss the issue of protective masks,
> saying only that "the [U.S. Capitol Police] has established
> protocols"to deal with chemical and biological threats.
> Another knowledgeable House aide said that talks intensified
> about different types of threats to the Capitol after the attacks
> on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen last October and on the Khobar
> Towers apartments in Saudi Arabia in 1996. The masks on the
> House side were put in place in response to those attacks, the
> aide said.
> In the wake of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade
> Center, officials and lawmakers are studying the idea of
> supplying the Capitol and House and Senate office buildings
> with additional masks and other protective gear.
> "We're looking at everything," the source said. "But the Capitol
> is different than the Longworth and Rayburn buildings. We're
> trying to decide just how effective masks would be when what
> you really want to do is get people out of the buildings as
> quickly as possible."
> While it is unclear whether the same precautions have been
> taken for the Senate chamber, some Senate Capitol offices
> reported receiving bags of masks early last week.
> Without any explanation or instruction of how to use them or
> who could use them, police distributed a sealed bag of about
> five masks to the Senate Daily Press Gallery last week.
> Robert Petersen, the director of the gallery, said the police
> officer dropped them off and simply told him that it was "part
> of procedure."
> He added that the gallery has received the masks on and off
> throughout the years since the Senate was bombed by a leftist
> radical group in 1983 days after the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
> The bombing caused substantial damage to the Senate
> Republican cloakroom and the surrounding areas, even
> destroying the door of then-Senate Minority Leader Robert
> Byrd's office.
> Petersen said he last received them during the impeachment
> trial of then President Bill Clinton, although they were removed
> shortly thereafter.
> Senate Associate Historian Don Ritchie said increased safety
> measures were first put in place after a radical anti-war group
> planted a bomb in a women's restroom on the ground floor of
> the Capitol in the early 1970s.
> Back then, screening machines were installed outside the
> House and Senate galleries. The machines and guards were
> moved outside the entrances to the Capitol after the bombing in
> 1983 and further safeguards such as guard shacks and
> barricades outside the Capitol office buildings were put in place
> after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
> Lauren W. Whittington contributed to this report.
> Current News Index
> <http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/>
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