Sick to death of Bush
In These Times
by Terry J. Allen
09/05/06
Trust me, George Bush says, perched on the remains of Geneva Conventions, the Constitution and habeas corpus. From this moral high ground, the United States is assuring the world that a new facility for researching a horror shop of weaponized infectious diseases will be used purely for defensive purposes. The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center’s (NBACC) $128 million, 160,000-square-foot facility is under construction at Fort Detrick, Md. There, the United States has already weaponized more than a dozen diseases -- including anthrax, plague, botulism and ebola -- and bioengineered war-friendly 'improvements.' Scientists are also using DNA-synthesizing techniques to fabricate genetically altered or man-made viruses, and to study the feasibility of creating germ weapons targeting particular ethnicities. 'De facto, we are going to make biowarfare pathogens at NBACC in order to study them,' Penrose Albright, former assistant Homeland Security secretary for science and technology, told the Washington Post...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2779/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Terry J. Allen
09/05/06
Trust me, George Bush says, perched on the remains of Geneva Conventions, the Constitution and habeas corpus. From this moral high ground, the United States is assuring the world that a new facility for researching a horror shop of weaponized infectious diseases will be used purely for defensive purposes. The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center’s (NBACC) $128 million, 160,000-square-foot facility is under construction at Fort Detrick, Md. There, the United States has already weaponized more than a dozen diseases -- including anthrax, plague, botulism and ebola -- and bioengineered war-friendly 'improvements.' Scientists are also using DNA-synthesizing techniques to fabricate genetically altered or man-made viruses, and to study the feasibility of creating germ weapons targeting particular ethnicities. 'De facto, we are going to make biowarfare pathogens at NBACC in order to study them,' Penrose Albright, former assistant Homeland Security secretary for science and technology, told the Washington Post...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2779/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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