ANTHRAX AND OTHER SMALL FAVORS
Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is making a lot of money selling anthrax vaccine. If it smells fishy, it isn't because the Admiral spent so much time at sea. He mostly steered his career from desk to desk, as an aide to admirals, a White House assistant, a staff officer, an Ambassador, graduate student, Pentagon planner, and the top dog at JCS.
Intervac L.L.C., of which Retired Adm William J. Crowe Jr. is director--a pharmaceutical investment firm in Maryland--under the newly formed BioPort Inc. bid $25 million to buy the Michigan Biologic Products Institute. The offer included $3.25 million in cash at closing, $12.1 million in secured notes, $4.6 million in rabies vaccine and immune globulin donations to the state and $5 million in royalties over five years. Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. was the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Reagan administration.
BioPort has negotiated with the DoD to make enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate everyone in the military. You figure it out. There are 2.4 million U.S. military personnel. That translates into millions of dollars (about $130 mil.) and they have to be revaccinated on an annual basis. Nice job if you can get it.
The lab he bought, opened in 1926 is the ONLY SOURCE OF ANTHRAX VACCINE IN THE NATION. By the way, it was a state-owned lab, which the Admiral acquired. A real sweet deal.
How does one get to do that? Well, for one thing you have to be nice to the President. Adm. William Crowe, a Republican, endorsed Gov. Bill Clinton when he ran for president. He gave Clinton the boost he needed when other Republicans were attacking his draft record. Crowe said this about his pal: "I served in uniform for 47 years . . . I know and have worked with many others who didn't serve in uniform, including a number of key national security figures in the Bush administration. That fact never affected my ability to work with them or my high regard for them."
Crowe was appointed by Ronnie Reagan to the nation's top military job in 1985 and served during the first part of Georgie Bush's term. His endorsement of Clinton paid off in spades. Or, I should say in anthrax.
How safe is Anthrax vaccine? DoD claims it is very safe and necessary, but the Department of Health in Britain said it was a problem in the Gulf War because of its simultaneous use with pertussis vaccine. Combining the vaccines, according to the Brits, caused severe medical conditions. There are a lot of sick veterans from the Gulf with Gulf War illnesses and the causes are still not known.
In the Gulf, American soldiers were used as guinea pigs for combinations of drug vaccines, including the anthrax vaccine, with "reckless disregard" to 400,000 U.S. troops, charged Senator John D. Rockefeller. 150,000 were given an anthrax vaccine. So, since when has the DoD been fair with veterans? Remember Agent Orange, Radiation Veterans, and all those other cover-ups.
Over the next few years the military will vaccinate every soldier against anthrax. Is this a good thing? The army considers anthrax to be the major biological warfare threat to the military.
The vaccination program consists of a series of six shots administered over an 18-month period. Annual boosters of the vaccine are needed to maintain immunity.
Because it takes 18 months to administer the full round of shots, and because of personnel turnover and mobility, the Army estimates a seven-to eight-year period to vaccinate all personnel.
The immunizations are mandatory.
Crowe gets his reward for his loyalty to Clinton. Lewinsky kissed his Peter Principle, which he [Clinton] achieved quite handily, and Crowe kissed his ass-isting him to get elected and they're both going to be unjustly rewarded for "making out" in the public trough.
Note: The Department of Defense claims the anthrax vaccine is safe, thoroughly tested, and "FDA-approved." Adam Cooper, a Marine stationed in Okinawa, and his parents believe the military lacks sufficient knowlege about the vaccination and its side effects. They believe the vaccine may be related to Gulf War Syndrome. Consequently, Adam Cooper has refused the Anthrax vaccination. Already demoted twice for refusing the vaccine, he has been told he will be discharged for refusing to obey an order.
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