E-mails questioned huge contract for firm with ties to Obama administration (Another Scandal)

CNN ^ | 12/8/2011 | David Fitzpatrick and Drew Griffin

[skeeter]

Just getting it out there so they can claim ‘old news’ when the republican challenger brings it up.

[Spunky]

"I don’t think we even HAVE smallpox anymore, do we? Wasn’t it eradicated?"

That is what my husbands doctor just told us when I asked him if they still gave babies smallpox vacine.

[Lurker]

For over 30 years.

Wrong.

[Cheerio]

AND WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS WITH ENOUGH BALLS TO START ARRESTING PEOPLE????????????????

How many months have the Fast and Furious hearings/investigation been going on now? Holder still comfortably in office. Brewer still comfortably in office. Napolitano still comfortably in office. Zero still comfortably in office. Napolitano still comfortably in office.I think conservatives have just about had their fill of this gangsta organization.

We need a new bumber sticker "No one died in Watergate".

[Qbert]

"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."

There are options in this no-bid contract that could raise the total value of the contract up to $2.8 Billion:

"SIGA TECHNOLOGIES AWARDED U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT VALUED AT UP TO $2.8 BILLION"

"...The 5-year base contract award is worth $433 million and includes options that would raise the contract's total value to approximately $2.8 billion, if these options are fully exercised."

http://www.siga.com/?ID=171

[Intolerant in NJ]

Welcome to the most corrupt administration in US history.....

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[unkus]

Welcome to the most corrupt administration in US history.....

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Evil, evil, evil.

[Dogbert41]

Get another rope! I should open up a rope factory just to deal with the last 3 years.

[VanShuyten]

I’d guess that CNN figured that it was a big enough story that people have heard of it, but if they report it a month later, all the heat is off the story, so it’s OK.

[kelly4c]

Yeah and the black people who voted for him simply cuz he’s also black should be outraged over the fact that this first black president is giving them such a bad name. It will be in the history books...”first black president of the United States... part of the most corrupt, backwards administration ever...” Yeah like History books do and will tell the whole story eh?

[Evergolightly]

There is another out there about a huge EC Called CH2M HILL and their ties to Obama.

See aim.org

The corruption is a cancer!

[jazzlite]

The treasury is being looted, America, and I am as surprised as anyone that CNN is reporting this. Do the guys who reported this still have a job there?

[trebb]

It was effectively erradicated “in the wild”, but we suspect the Russians and others may have some weaponized versions which could cause a some serious problems if used.

[Pelham]

You’re forgetting that Bill Clinton was the First Black President. Although some people make that claim for Warren Harding.

At the least Zero is the first Indonesian/half Kenyan/alien to be President.

[maryz]

I don’t think we even HAVE smallpox anymore, do we?
Wasn’t it eradicated?

I believe that, after the anthrax scare, the gov't (even under Bush) feared a terrorist group could acquire some of the smallpox virus kept for research purposes(?) and use it to start an epidemic.

[ColdOne]

not only CNN but CNN Special Investigations Unit Who knew!!!!!

[Munz]

>This is from CNN?<

I know right!

It is their 1% policy of providing journalism - they have to do it to remain a news reporting agency instead of a tabloid.

[piasa]

Antiviral bump