Just how would you prove this citizenship?
Posted on 02/11/2009 7:44:25 AM PST by BGHater
Army officials have suspended most research involving dangerous germs at the biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., which the F.B.I. has linked to the anthrax attacks of 2001, after discovering that some pathogens stored there were not listed in a laboratory database.
The suspension, which began Friday and could last three months, is intended to allow a complete inventory of hazardous bacteria, viruses and toxins stored in refrigerators, freezers and cabinets in the facility, the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
The inventory was ordered by the institute’s commander, Col. John P. Skvorak, after officials found that the database of specimens was incomplete. In a memorandum to employees last week, Colonel Skvorak said there was a high probability that some germs and toxins in storage were not in the database.
Rules for keeping track of pathogens were tightened after the 2001 anthrax letters, which killed five people. But pressure to improve recordkeeping and security at the Army institute intensified six months ago after the suicide of Bruce E. Ivins, a veteran anthrax researcher, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s announcement that prosecutors had been preparing to charge Dr. Ivins with making the deadly anthrax powder in his laboratory there.
A spokesman for the institute, Caree Vander Linden, said an earlier review had located all the germ samples listed in the database. But she said some “historical samples” in institute freezers were not in the database, and the new inventory was intended to identify them so they could be recorded and preserved, or destroyed if they no longer had scientific value.
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Who works there? What kind of security clearance is required? Citizenship or not?
Yikes.
This is comforting...
Eric Holder is undoubtedly disturbed at this course of events 'and we're not going to let that puke get off the hook.
Time to "reopen" and find the anthrax attackers.
Active duty military and civil service.
What kind of security clearance is required?
Secret or above.
Citizenship or not?
Can't get a clearance without citizenship.
It is too close to population center, makes no sense to have it there anymore.
Rest assured the material and work will not be destroyed.
Now, it that good or bad? I do not know.
Just how would you prove this citizenship?
Once you steal an election, all the rules on clearances go out the window. None of the last 3 Presidents would have qualified for a security clearance, let alone access to nuclear weapons if the rules used on the true patriots were applied.
eh? Didn’t W fly jet planes, stands to reason he could get a clearance...
I believe his stint as a pilot preceded his cocaine and alcohol problems.
Dangerous germs: however we have illegals no need for research.
Drug use isn’t a disqualifier for clearance although it sure doesn’t help. Lying about it is.
When I performed USAF medical clearances for Security and PRP (Nuclear Surety) one-time or non-habitual use of marijuana was not disqualifying. Cocaine or LSD use was. It’s been 18 years, and things may have changed, but I doubt it.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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