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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:34
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some specifics:
a litmus test interview of appointees
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In 2002, Dr. William R. Miller, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at University of New Mexico, was invited to join the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse. This advisory committee guides policy and funding on drug abuse at NIH. Before Dr. Miller could be appointed, however, an official from Secretary Thompson’s office called him to ask several questions. These questions included whether he was sympathetic to faith-based initiatives, whether he supported abortion rights, whether he supported the death penalty for drug kingpins, and whether he had voted for President Bush. |
page 28 of the report
how about an unqualified ideological appointee?
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In 2002, HHS impeded its ability to obtain objective scientific advice in women’s health by nominating Dr. W. David Hager, a conservative religious activist, to chair the FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. The committee is charged with evaluating the safety and effectiveness of drugs for obstetrics, gynecology, and related specialties.135 In the past, FDA has chosen for this important position highly respected members of the scientific community with strong credentials in the field of reproductive health. Dr. Hager’s principal experience for the position appeared to be his lobbying for a
renewed safety review of the approved drug RU-486, an abortifacient, even though no significant new evidence called its safety into question. The Lancet described his “track record” as a researcher as “sparse.”136 Dr. Hager’s major publications are medical books imbued with religious themes, such as offering advice that women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome should pray and read the bible. Although ultimately not appointed chair, Dr. Hager is now a member
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page 26 of the report
do I need to post more for you lazy ppl out there?
it's all in the report.
Hopefully this will be enough specific proof for the Bush-apologists out there.
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Mar 2001
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After abrogating the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, President Bush ordered the deployment of a missile defense system by 2004.114
In making the case for missile defense, however, leading Defense Department officials have distorted scientific evidence on the feasibility of such a system. In 2002 and 2003, General Ronald Kadish, head of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, said that the Pentagon would complete a test facility in Alaska by the end of 2004.115
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a Senate Appropriations Committee that prototype interceptors able to shoot down enemy
missiles would be in place at the facility by September 2004.116 Most
dramatically, Under Secretary of Defense Edward Aldridge told a Senate panel that by the end of 2004, the system would be 90% effective in intercepting missiles from the Korean peninsula.117
Leading independent experts have reported that these claims are unjustified. Philip Coyle, former director of the Office of Operational Test and Evaluation at the Pentagon, has reported that a missile defense system was “at least a decade” from completion.118 The editors of Scientific American have said, “Regarding missile defense, researchers’ best guess is that a reliable system is infeasible.”119
In April 2003, GAO found the President’s plan unworkable and even
dangerous.120 |
more distortion and manipulation of data... page 23 of the report
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WISCONSIN
Aug 1999
time: 05:34
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http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/
January 27, 2004
MISSILE DEFENSE BOOSTER TEST IS SUCCESSFUL
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced today the completion last night of another successful flight test involving a new booster rocket designed to support the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system to intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles of the type that could be aimed at any of our 50 states. This was a test of the primary booster to be fielded with the GMD system later this year, and included measurement of booster performance and the participation of an integrated architecture designed to detect and track a target missile, launch the interceptor missile, and provide detailed target identification, tracking and communication to the interceptor missile. No intercept took place, as the target missile was simulated for this test.
Integrated Flight Test -13b (IFT-13b) included the second successful launch of an Orbital Sciences boost vehicle with an instrumented payload (simulated exoatmospheric kill vehicle) from the Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the central Pacific Ocean.
The booster rocket lifted off last night (Jan. 26) at 9:22 p.m. EST (2:22 p.m. Jan. 27 Kwajalein time), and flew to a simulated intercept point approximately 800 miles downrange and to an altitude of approximately 170 miles above the earth. Initial analysis shows that booster performance was nominal, in that it was within design parameters and that payload separation was successful. Program officials will begin an extensive post-test review to determine precise booster performance parameters.
IFT-13b demonstrated several new system capabilities necessary for the successful operation of the GMD system, including the GMD fire control/communication nodes (GFC/C) located at the Joint National Integration Center (JNIC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. and the Reagan Test Site. The GFC at the Reagan Test Site issued the weapon task plan, which plans and directs the interceptor missile to place it in the path of a target missile to effect a "hit to kill" intercept, using only the force of the direct collision with the missile's warhead to destroy it.
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This test also included for the first time participation of military personnel within the Cheyenne Mountain (Colo.) Operations Center and the space-based infrared system test node in Colorado to simulate early warning and tracking information about the simulated target. The In-Flight Interceptor Communications System (IFICS) at the Reagan Test Site was used to relay target information directly to the interceptor. In an actual intercept test, this would transmit integrated tracking and target location information to the exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), which is the interceptor component that actually collides with the target warhead.
Several additional ground and flight tests are planned for this year, including at least two intercept tests. Up to 10 interceptors are planned to be deployed this year at Ft. Greely, Alaska (up to six interceptors) and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (up to four interceptors) to provide a defensive capability against a long-range missile attack on the United States. Up to 10 additional interceptors are planned to be fielded at Ft. Greely by the end of 2005.
Again, I don't know what you mean by not feasible, looks like it is working however, looks like it won't be ready until 2005, not a lie, a miscalculation, or what is wrong with this article.
Test fired on 1-27-04 only a couple of weeks ago.
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