Osama thanks panel for excellent report

by YankeeJim | January 26, 2010 at 10:49 am

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Imagine, sitting in a cave or crude outpost in Pakistan reading the internet version of the Washington Post under an assumed name, i.e. Dick Cheney. Osama hotlinks his way to the committee’s report and says to his trusted advisor, chauffeur, and camel whip, “The report confirms our strategy to seek out and exploit this vulnerability. We must act swiftly – three or four years before they finish reading the report.”

“U.S. still unprepared for major biological terrorist attack, report says

By Joby Warrick

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 26, 2010; 10:52 AM

More than eight years after the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, the United States is still unprepared to respond to a major biological terror attack, a congressionally appointed commission said Tuesday in a report that gave the federal government mixed grades overall for protecting Americans from the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

The report, which measured government's performance in 17 areas, gave the White House and Congress "F" grades for failing to build a rapid-response capability for dealing with bioterror threats, or providing adequate oversight over security and intelligence agencies.

The bipartisan panel cited the government's faltering response to the swine-flu epidemic as evidence of a lack of preparedness for a large-scale crisis, adding that the blame for the failures is shared across administrations and branches of government.”