Posted on 12/08/2011 7:47:17 PM PST by tobyhill
A series of e-mail exchanges between officials at the Department of Health and Human Services shows growing alarm at the amount of projected profit from a government contract for a drug company whose controlling shareholder is a longtime Democratic Party activist.
Ronald Perelman is controlling shareholder of Siga Technologies and a longtime Democratic Party activist and fundraiser. He's also a large contributor to Republicans, but has been a particular friend of the Obama White House.
Also on Siga's board of directors is Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union, who has had close relations with the Obama administration and who has supported President Barack Obama's health care initiatives.
In May 2011, Health and Human Services awarded Siga a no-bid contract worth nearly $433 million to develop and produce 1.7 million doses of an anti-viral smallpox drug called STS-246. The drug would augment the existing supply of smallpox vaccine now in U.S. control.
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This is from CNN?
Government by the politicians, for the politicians - and their friends..
Thanks tobyhill. It was a stimulus the same way a taser is a stimulus.
Just ANOTHER reason to begin the Impeachment Proceedings of gangsta Obama.
No news to us but to a CNN viewer, could be shocking.
I don’t think we even HAVE smallpox anymore, do we?
Wasn’t it eradicated?
I don’t think we even HAVE smallpox anymore, do we?
Wasn’t it eradicated?
Not surprising.
Something every day. . . Is someone keeping track of all this crap? I was about a year ago but just couldn’t keep up. Would be a great campaign ad for whomever the nominee is. Just give a speech and mention Obama and key words, phrases of the past three years and bingo, poll numbers go up - assuming the informed electorate knows what they mean, signify. I mean, where do you start?
Explains why politicians don’t like.50 caliber rifles.
So this is CNN? Then why do they defend Obama on air 24/7 ????
“This is from CNN?”
The editors must have been off to participate in a OWS rally and missed this one.
For over 30 years.
AND WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS WITH ENOUGH BALLS TO START ARRESTING PEOPLE????????????????
Obama is going to turn out to have run the most corrupt administration since Grant.
If you don't count the several hundred tons of smallpox the Soviets produced during the cold war which our Government tells us has been (mostly) destroyed, or the remaining samples of live smallpox virus that were never destroyed (they were stored in 3 countries, can you guess them?), or the occasional case that pops up in some 3rd world rat hole, then yes small pox was eradicated.
That's what your Government says. And we all know your Government would never lie to you.
“They have no shame.”
Evidently it seems they have no fear of prosecution either.
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