Three years after the Central Intelligence Agency set up a phony hepatitis vaccination program in Pakistan as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration told a group of American health educators last week that the agency no longer uses immunization programs as a cover for spying operations.
In a letter to leaders at a dozen schools of public health, President Obama’s senior counterterrorism adviser said the C.I.A. had banned the practice of making “operational use” of vaccination programs, adding that the agency would not seek to “obtain or exploit DNA or other genetic material acquired through such programs.”
Using a vaccination program to try to find bin Laden is thought to have led to the deaths of 56 immunization workers in Pakistan, and it may well be contributing to the current polio emergency (which is partly rooted in Pakistan).
I love how we get politically correct about the details of our covert, extrajudicial assassinations.
Well, three years ago I’m sure they said they didn’t use vaccination programs as cover. They’re saying they won’t now, and they said they didn’t, then. What exactly has changed? Aren’t they still just lying? How would we know?
Hey, when it comes to getting any of the bastards responsible for 9/11, etc, then I’m pretty leniant as to what we allow our covert men and women do.
Waterboarding – no ….. sure.
This really doesn’t bother me, if they are giving out actual vaccinations.