WMD Panel Gives an F to Obama and Congress for Failing to Prepare for Bioweapons Attack -- Newsweek
The Obama administration and Congress get an F for failing to prepare for a biological terrorist attack—a “national security” risk that is getting greater “by the day,” according to the director of a blue-ribbon federal panel set up to study the issue.
Borrowing a page from the 9/11 Commission, the bipartisan WMD panel is today issuing a “report card” on how the U.S. government has responded to its December 2008 recommendations for steps needed to prepare for the threat that terrorists will strike using nuclear or biological weapons.
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Update: Report: U.S. Unprepared for Bioterrorism -- Time Magazine/AP
My Comment: Reading about bioterrorism issues for the past few years reminds me of all the reading that I have done on nuclear terrorism issues. Everyone talks about it, everyone provides plans and programs to counter it .... but in the end nothing happens.
On a side note, one my favorite blogs that covers Bioterrorism issues and who poo-poos all the fear rhetoric on this issue is Armchair Generalist. The link to his blog is here.
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