[IP] Domestic Defense
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From: Raymcfarld@xxxxxxx
Date: October 13, 2005 6:10:09 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Domestic Defense
There already is a Uniformed Service that has this responsibility!
(Hint - the Surgeon General of the US wears this uniform and he/she
is its Commanding Officer!) Its the Public Health Service, and I
believe it is subordinate to the NIH. They have the responsibility
for declaring and enforcing large quarantine areas in the US.
Ray
In a message dated 10/8/05 9:07:20 PM, dave@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Hurricane, Flu Outbreak Defense
The notion that the military should play a greater role in other
civil matters—by quarantining part of the country affected by an
infectious-disease outbreak, for example—was raised by President Bush
himself in a White House news conference Tuesday. A questioner
pointed out to the president that Health and Human Services Secretary
Mike Leavitt had said that emergency services and local governments
were not prepared to handle such an outbreak. The questioner asked
whether, in light of the government’s recent problems responding to
hurricanes, this was why Bush was considering using “defense assets”
to respond to a deadly flu epidemic.
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