|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Charles Jannuzi
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|| If anyone can figure out what actually went on and is going on
|| with Bioport,
|| Inc. (apparently their old web site which used to list
|| Carlucci's cronies
|| from the DoD and the Lebanese guy in name is now down), they might get
|| pretty close to a major scandal.
||
|| Bioport was allowed to acquire the only means of providing an anthrax
|| vaccine to the US troops (and the US population).
Hell, what _isn't_ a scandal at the Pentagon? How many trillion bucks did Rummy say were unaccounted for already?
Francis Schor details Carlucci's resume as a vicious cold war slimeball and post-cold-war profiteer at Carlyle: (love those short URL's they got at Counterpunch) http://www.counterpunch.org/schorcarlucci.html February 1, 2002
The Strange Career of Frank Carlucci
By Francis Schor (...) As Secretary of Defense he [Carlucci] worked closely with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and particularly the Chairman, Admiral William Crowe, Jr. (Crowe is now a chief stock-holder of the parent company of BioPort, the recently FDA approved monopoly holder of an anthrax vaccine. The Carlyle Group also apparently has stock holdings in Crowe's company.) (...)