2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:23:06 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] BIOWEAPONS: The biodefense debate
 
Anthrax Case Renews Questions on Bioterror

By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE
New York Times
August 3, 2008


WASHINGTON - Until the anthrax attacks of 2001, Bruce E. Ivins was one of just a few dozen American bioterrorism researchers working with the most lethal biological pathogens, almost all at high-security military laboratories.

Today, there are hundreds of such researchers in scores of laboratories at universities and other institutions around the United States, preparing for the next bioattack.

But the revelation that F.B.I. investigators believe that the anthrax attacks were carried out by Dr. Ivins, an Army biodefense scientist who committed suicide last week after he learned that he was about to be indicted for murder, has already re-ignited a debate: Has the unprecedented boom in biodefense research made the country less secure by multiplying the places and people with access to dangerous germs?

"We are putting America at more risk, not less risk," said Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of a House panel that has investigated recent safety lapses at biolabs.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/us/03anthrax.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=Ft.%20Detrick%20labs&st=cse&oref=slogin

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Lenny Siegel
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