Showing posts with label pelosi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pelosi. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2010

Botox: the latest tool in bio-terror?

Nancy-pelosi Uh-oh. With all the botox in that mug of Nancy Pelosi's she could be classified as a weapon of mass destruction.

<---- Botox gone bad.

From the Times of India:

Terrorists are exploiting a surging black market for the popular anti-wrinkle drug botox to develop bioterrorism weapons, experts say.

Al-Qaida is known to be seeking the deadly botulinum toxin that comprises the active ingredient in botox, and officials say they believe terrorists in Chechnya and elsewhere have established illegal factories to churn out the raw toxin, the Washington Post reported.

Kenneth Coleman, a biodefense expert, said his probe hints that a biologist of modest means and education can easily tap the counterfeit botox market to manufacture 1g of pure toxin, which would be sufficient to kill thousands of people.

The black market for botox has spawned illicit networks of suppliers who mostly work online and don't demand prescriptions. "There are no major obstacles," said Coleman, who authored a study for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "It's not hard to get the bacterial strains. But you don't even have to make it. You can buy it from makers to cause widespread harm."

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Pelosi says CIA lied to her about waterboarding

Everyday it's a new story. Washington Post

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (Calif.) assertion at a press conference this morning that the Bush administration and the Central Intelligence Agency misled her and the Congress regarding the treatment of suspected terrorists adds further fuel to the fire on an issue that has been on a low boil for weeks.

Asked whether she was accusing the CIA of lying to her during a 2002 briefing on the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques," Pelosi said: "Yes, misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am."[...]

"The Speaker has had way too many stories on this issue," said House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) at a press conference moments ago. He added that he has "not one doubt" that interrogations of detainees were conducted "within the law" and that he was opposed to the idea of a truth commission.

As the Post's Paul Kane notes, Pelosi acknowledged publicly for the first time today that she was aware that detainees were being waterboarded as long ago as 2003 when a member of her staff was part of a briefing in February of that year in which it was revealed that waterboarding was ongoing.

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