White House memo exposes Rove knew of problems with anthrax vaccine

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Allen McDuffee
Raw Story
Thursday August 7, 2008

Rove said Gulf War Syndrome, vaccine political stumbling block

The Department of Defense continued its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program despite high ranking Bush administration officials acknowledging there were problems with the vaccine within months of the Bush administration taking office—well before the 9/11 attacks and the October 2001 anthrax letters.

A 2001 memorandum from former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz indicates that the White House knew of problems relating to the Gulf War Syndrome and the military’s controversial anthrax vaccine.

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The FBI’s selective release of documents in the anthrax case by Glenn Greenwald

Should ABC News reveal its anonymous sources? by Simon Owens

Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald h/t mudshark

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