Pentagon Found Too Slow on Anthrax Alarm

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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon was too slow to inform local officials about the anthrax scare in Defense Department mail facilities last month, and gave antibiotics to workers without coordinating with public health officials, an assessment of the false alarm concludes.

Moreover, the Homeland Security Department "needs to be involved earlier in such incidents," according to a summary of the report obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

"Perhaps the greatest information concerns of the state and local governments involved the adequacy of updates from DoD on the testing taking place, and DoD's role in making prophylaxis decisions alone," says a summary of the report by Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia officials that is expected to be released Tuesday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=6&u=/ap/20050404/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_scare

Well...I find this rather unsettling, to say the least.
The Penty-gon and the Ministry of Homeland Defense both dropped the ball after three-plus years of spring training!
Tough on terror, my ass!




Time Poll conducted by Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas (SRBI) Public Affairs. March 22-24, 2005. N=1,010 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"Do you approve or disapprove of the job President Bush is doing in each of these areas? Handling the war on terrorism."

3/22-24/05
Approve 52%
Disapprove 43%
Unsure 4%

3/15-17/05
Approve 63%
Disapprove 34%
Unsure 3%

http://www.pollingreport.com/terror.htm

Edited to add the chimp's fading war on terrorism approval.

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