U.S. bioterrorism research leaps past defensive tactics

[Minstrel Boy]

U.S. bioterrorism research leaps past defensive tactics
Oakland Tribune, June 8

The Bush administration is ramping up bioterrorism research that will press beyond traditional defenses against natural biowarfare germs to explore genetically engineered superbugs, as well as the means to mass-produce and disseminate them.

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"If any other country set forth a program like this, U.S. intelligence undoubtedly would call it an offensive program," said Edward Hammond, head of the Sunshine Project, a group in Austin, Texas, that tracks bioweapons and biodefense issues.

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The United States has accused eight nations of running bioweapons programs, based largely on evidence of genetic engineering of pathogens and possession of equipment for studying production and delivery methods. Looking at the administration's new biodefense strategy, other nations may make the same judgment of the United States, bolstering arguments by their own defense scientists for more aggressive biological research.

If we found these things elsewhere in countries we were suspicious of, we would not say they had a necessary biodefense program, said Leitenberg.

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2199592,00.html

[struggle4progress]

1. UN inspectors should monitor Bush's WMD programs!

[bobthedrummer]

2. The same guy in charge of US bio-defense is LIHOP/MIHOP suspect

number one, in my book-Jerome Hauer. DHHS Sect. Tommy Thompson hired Jerome Hauer from SAIC on 9-10-2001.

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks Hauer and Thompson promoted the use of Cipro in government, Thompson bragged about his negotiating skills in buying 300 million doses of Cipro from former I.G. Farben business Bayer as innocent US Postal Service employees were infected in HOT ZONES.

Of course this all happened way before the ANTHRAX attacks which came from US Ames strain spores weaponized by the US Army for the end user, the CIA.

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Googling Jerome Hauer

sure turns up a stinking load. Friend and colleague of Stephen Hatfill, turns the White House onto Cipro, and got John O'Neil his job at the World Trade Center.

[bobthedrummer]

13. Yep. Then there are all those dead micro-biologists and others

like Dr. Don C. Wiley that have died mysteriously over the past few years, all related somehow to biological warfare "defense".

DU 9/11 Anthrax thread from 9-11-2003
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=318604#top

[bacchant]

3. Soon to be manufacturing all those drums of industrial strength

Lib-be-gone :scared: :tinfoilhat: :scared:

[tom_paine]

4. No tinfoil there. We know the Busheviks consider us to be Subhumans

and Traitors, just as their Spiritual Antcedents, the Nazis, thought of Liberals..coincidentally.

Yes, the genetically engineered superbugs will be used against the Imperial Subjects of Amerika, perhaps during the reign of Caligula Bush.

[Gin]

6. We already have an example of a "SUPER BUG"..in Congress...

look at the damage that one roach has done...let this be a warning to all of us.

[tom_paine]

7. LOL

[bacchant]

8. I wonder...

are conservatism and liberalism nurture or nature? I've often wondered if there might be a genetic component to our political dispositions. And if so, could such a thing be isolated in a person's DNA as a particular gene or group of genes? Maybe there's a secret PNAC research facility trying to ascertain this very thing. A few late night malathion-like spraying runs and presto, a new and improved America!

How many tinfoil hats does this one rate?

[Just Me]

9. Very freaky thought!!!

I believe there has been a study involving the differences in brain activity shown by MRIs. But, it's really hard for me to imagine a gene thingy. Ya' never know.

[NJmaverick]

10. Sadly bush wants to make offensive bio weapons

While our nation is still woefully underpreparded for Biodefense. In fact bush wants to cut the meager biodefense budget.

[seemslikeadream]

11. The CIA and Its Secret Experiments

The CIA and Its Secret Experiments

with MKULTRA & Germ Warfare.

America’s Great State Secret

by

Gordon Thomas

(Author of Seeds of Fire: China And The Story Behind The Attack On America)

MINDFIELD

· Sensational never-seen-before documents from inside the White House, CIA and other agencies.

· Reveals the documentary evidence that links US Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the cover-up of the death of top CIA scientist, Frank Olson.



· Explains how the CIA financed a ruthless and systematic assault of the human psyche – using a British-born psychiatrist to spearhead the assault.

· Names other world renowned physicians who were involved in the most sinister research programme ever created by any United States government – and its secret partner – the British government.

· Reveals how a woman was programmed to become a CIA assassin.

· Describes how a CIA chemist was murdered by his own colleagues after he had turned to the one man he thought he could trust – a London psychiatrist engaged in similar work.

· Reveals how “expendables” – the CIA generic name for those selected for killing – were secretly murdered after they had been experimented on in Europe.

· Describes how the CIA used prostitutes and mental patients in other experiments.

· Explains how the CIA deliberately pioneered the drug culture whose effects are still with us.

· Reveals how the CIA agent selected to monitor the experiments eventually died at the hands of a physician steeped in the methods perfected by the CIA.

· Identifies how the CIA experiments are still carried on in secret establishments in Israel and China.

· Uncovers CIA terminal experiments on Vietcong prisoners in Vietnam.

· Publishes the CIA Manual of Assassination – a shocking document describing how to commit state-approved murder.

“Meticulously researched, Mindfield is a deeply disturbing story of hideous government experiments using drugs and behavioural modification. Teaching hospitals on both sides of the Atlantic were used. Many of the doctors who performed those experiments remain in high office today and still conduct those experiments with impunity. Mindfield is a terrifying warning how easy it is for elected governments to sanction secret experiments to control human behaviour. Gordon Thomas has meticulously taken us from incredulity to awareness of the Machiavellian lengths our governments go to in our unsuspecting name. This remarkable book is essential reading for all those in a trusted role to care for people. In every sense it is an outstanding text that reveals the darker side of medicine.”

Professor Anne White
M.C.S.P. Bsc M.D. F.R.C.P.A.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
McMaster University, Canada

http://www.gordonthomas.ie/mindfield.htm

[daleo]

12. Rebuilding America's Defenses - PNAC document

They were entranced by the notion of diseases that could be engineered to attack only certain genotypes. Dr. Strangelove was nothing compared to these guys.