Distractions-Why Does Judy Miller's Name Keep Popping Up on My Computer?

[kpete]

In the immediate run-up to the Judith Miller article, this was happening:

After nearly seven years of negotiations, what was intended to be the final session to complete the treaty ended in disarray on Aug. 17, 2001, when the U.S. government decided to block the treaty being negotiated by 143 countries at the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BTWC) in Geneva, Switzerland. To avoid another publicity fiasco like the one that followed its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the U.S. delegation remained in Geneva after rejecting the biological weapons treaty until the negotiating session disbanded in order to prevent other nations from reaching a biological weapons agreement among themselves. Such tactics further angered many American and foreign scientists.

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U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits

THIS ARTICLE WAS REPORTED AND WRITTEN BY JUDITH MILLER, STEPHEN ENGELBERG AND WILLIAM J. BROAD.
Published: September 4, 2001

Over the past several years, the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons.

The 1972 treaty forbids nations from developing or acquiring weapons that spread disease, but it allows work on vaccines and other protective measures. Government officials said the secret research, which mimicked the major steps a state or terrorist would take to create a biological arsenal, was aimed at better understanding the threat.

The projects, which have not been previously disclosed, were begun under President Clinton and have been embraced by the Bush administration, which intends to expand them.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E1D71639F937A3575AC0A9679C8B63&scp=1&sq=&st=nyt

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While most of our media is focused on covering the war on terror and the conflict in Iraq, another Administration initiative could easily turn into another arena of conflict with truly frightening implications.

I am referring to a massive and under-reported Bush Administration initiative to spend six BILLION dollars on a new "Bio-Defense" program that is building as many as 20 BL-4 labs equipped to handle the deadliest pathogens known to man. Without a public debate or media scrutiny this program is attacking serious criticism from the scientific community and community groups opposed to siting these labs in densely populated urban areas

more at:
http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2008/08/02/the-biowar-story-not-told-in-the-aftermath-of-a-scientists-suicide/

[bleever]

1. K&R.

"Dark actors" indeed.

[Muttocracy]

2. it's a small world after all. power world that is.

[libnnc]

3. kick

[EFerrari]

4. Miller is likely CIA. She's just incompetent and destructive enough

to fit the job description.

Her book came out at exactly the right time. Maybe she was the anthrax mailer.