Thompson,Tommy

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On Oct 04, 2002, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson was suddenly assuring Americans that photo editor Bob Stevens (->) may have caught anthrax while traveling in the North Carolina countryside, but some CDC experts were arguing that mail facilities could be contaminated. http://www.azcentral.com/news/reuters/stories/SCIENCE-HEALTH-ANTHRAX-DC.html But Thommy Thompson lied. On September 11th, 2001 he was under the impression, that an possible anthrax attack could occur from a terrorist attack. This was the day, when the White House took CIPRO. From an older Ground Zero Forum article, originally released at Scoop: "Events related to Tommy Thompson and the coordination between the NIH and CDC give rise to a huge mountain of questions. It's still a mystery, for example, why Tommy Thompson decided to hire Jerome Hauer, former Office of Emergency Center on September 10th (or maybe some days earlier) and then decided to distribute CIPRO for the White House on the evening of September 11th. And why is this info widely ignored in the public...? http://www.lauriegarrett.com/wtc_day12.html ...Thompson already okayed, in early October, a long time before the first attack was known, a sudden cooperation with BioPharmacy companies. The German edition of financial times already criticised in the same month, that the US Government works together with BioPharmacy companies who have had a bad reputation for years. http://www.ftd.de/pw/in/1277181.html?nv=rs BIOPORT (->) had problems with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in early 1998, when they were criticised over the quality of their vaccines. Now they have their license back. Bioport was founded by William Crowe and Fuad El-Hibri (ex-Porton Down ->), which is still on the suspect list of the FAS. Then we have Dynport, a subsidiary of DynCorp (and partner of Porton Down UK),who got a contract in 2001 to develop a new vaccine against anthrax. Another contractor is Acambis (former Oravax since 1993), which was founded by Thomas Monath, who is a good friend of Jerome Hauer and another anthrax suspect Stephen Hatfill (former USAMRIID and former Battelle). In the meantime Hauer replaced Donald Henderson (Johns Hopkins Institute) as the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness (OPHP), a division of the NIH. Thompson created the OPHP last October to develop and coordinate HHS's bioterrorism preparedness efforts. Hauer is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School (->) of Public Health in Baltimore and was a student of Henderson's when Henderson was Dean there. Hauer called Henderson his, "longtime friend and mentor," according to the HHS release. Henderson led the World Health Organization's successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He is the founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies and was its director before he took the OPHP position. Thompson was well known for Wisconsin Works, or "W-2," the state's landmark welfare-to-work legislation, which served as a national model for welfare reform. As Governor, Thompson created FamilyCare, designed to help elderly and disabled citizens, and allow them to receive care in their homes for as long as possible. Thompson seems to have either a huge intuition, or advance knowledge about a possible anthrax attack. Though the NIH profited from a new BioDefense budget, they are not the only ones to benefit from the emergence of bio-terror on the US mainland. Cepheid, FDA, Hadron, Intellitec, Ion Beam Applications, Motorola Life Sciences, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), U.S. Public Health Service, Versar and DynPort all got new budgets too. Thompson was a supporter of a project called Homelandhealth.Com. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had basically joined with the pharmaceutical industry to develop defenses against biological threats. But this project was already started by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) on October 30th, 2001, while the investigation on the anthrax attack was still going on..." http://www.phrma.org/press/newsreleases//2001-10-30.303.phtml