Posted on 11/25/2011 8:22:29 PM PST by Hojczyk
Almost two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times reported on the peculiar case of Siga Technologies, which got a no-bid contract to supply the Pentagon with an experimental vaccine for smallpox, a dead disease, when we have a plentiful supply of traditional vaccine to handle an outbreak.
Siga Technologies has close ties to the Democratic Party with its primary investor, party donor Ronald Perelman, and relatively new board member Andy Stern, the former head of the SEIU and a frequent visitor to the Obama White House. The deal amounts to almost a half-billion dollars for Perelman and Stern, and the White House appears to have intervened to relax contract requirements and eliminate any hint of competition for the project.
Under those circumstances, it should come as no surprise that a member of Congress wants this deal investigated. Should it surprise us that the demand comes from a Senate Democrat?
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, has asked The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review the Obama administration’s award of a $443 million sole-source contract to a company owned by a major Democratic donor. …
Citing “serious questions” about the contract, the Los Angeles Times reported that McCaskill has asked the inspector general of HHS to investigate. McCaskill is the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting and Oversight.
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Too little too late, Claire. Everyone knows your game and this little show won,’t save you.
One thing ya gotta give the dims-—they’re very ballsy!
I can’t help but wonder if they think they’re too smart to be caught. It’s even scary that the pubbies weren’t the ones to catch it!
Pfeh. McCaskill is extremely vulnerable and up for re-election in 2012. She’d be as mum as the flowers in my mom’s front yard if it were otherwise.
McCaskill is just mad that she didn’t get a cut.
Clue bat for you, McCaskill: you are just as disposable to obama and his politburo as the useless idiots you dupe into voting demscum are to you!
Easy way to sweep this under the rug is to have a Demorat investigate a Demorat.
Why is it that each scandal that involves Barry’s discretional spending comes in tranches of a half-a-billion dollars? A few solar companies, an electric car company in Finland, now smallpox vaccine. Why half-a-billion each wasteful time?
Having a treatment for it around with uncertain efficacy still has strategic value. Of the subset of lunatics who might still have some, and are crazy enough to deploy it, how many would be willing to risk their attack fizzling? It shrinks an already small pool. Any case of smallpox now should be considered an act of war until proven otherwise. The only other possibilities would be a lab accident at the CDC or the one Russian repository.
Lest we automatically rule out the lab accidents we should remember the final two cases of smallpox resulted from a lab accident in Birmingham, UK. which was never fully explained. A photographer, a floor above in the building, who was allegedly never physically in the lab, contracted smallpox, presumably through air vents. She died. Her mother caught a mild case from her and survived. The head of the lab committed suicide. There'd been a larger outbreak from a London lab a few years earlier. The media, whenever discussing smallpox, rarely mention this. They prefer to focus on the "natural" final third world case, who survived, rather than the unnatural final first world cases.
BTW, smallpox is now longer the only disease man has eradicated. Victory was declared over rinderpest a few months ago, although it also survives in labs. Cattle world wide rejoice! Rinderpest, to them, was like smallpox on steroids to us - 90% mortality. Measles in humans is thought to have evolved from rinderpest
Looks like someone is snooping around in her back yard
Typical democratic misdirection. These people are the most immoral regime this country has ever seen.
So Obama and his accomplices are stealing another 1/2 billion from taxpayers, while at the same time they want to increase our taxes.
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