01/02/2010
Biological Warfare Weekend 2
BW as a political football.
This week’s developments featured impressive posturing surrounding Tuesday’s report by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.
Always get in the first shot With the deft political timing that CIA training provides, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, now at Harvard, started the week off with his own assessment of al Qaeda’s WMD threat.
George Smith calls the report thin, and goes into a lengthy review of the Ricin debacle in the UK, which Mow-Lar had googled for his report.
Armchair Generalist calls the report alarmist.
The Boston Globe and New York Daily News talk up Mowatt-Larssen’s credentials. The Globe even called it a “study.”
F is for Funding Former Senators Graham and Talent released their report the next day.
Plutonium Page at Daily Kos said it wasn’t really the commission because some of the original staff was replaced by new staff and maybe they weren’t very good staff or something.
Judith Miller’s Fox News headline read: Obama Gets ‘F’ on Stopping Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Which isn’t what the report said at all.
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