IP: BIO-TERRORISM: LINKS TO THE HEAD OF A WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION?: What's New for Dec 14, 2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 3. BIO-TERRORISM: LINKS TO THE HEAD OF A WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION?
> Three New York Times writers, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg
> and William Broad have turned out an incredibly timely piece of
> investigative reporting at its best.  Germs, Simon & Schuster,
> 2001, begins with a chilling account of the first bio-terrorism
> attack on U.S. soil: the deliberate salmonella poisoning of
> hundreds of residents in Wasco County Oregon in an effort to keep
> them away from the polls, and thus take political control of the
> region.  The attack was carried out by members of a free-sex cult
> led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who was subsequently deported.
> What Germs doesn't tell you is that one of Rajneesh's followers
> was a psychiatrist named James Gordon (WN 16 Aug 96), who wrote
> The Golden Guru, an admiring book about Rajneesh.  Gordon was
> involved in the effort to take political control of Antelope,
> Oregon.  Incredibly, James Gordon now heads the White House
> Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WN
> 19 Oct 01), created in waning days of the Clinton Administration.
>
> 4. PCAST: BUSH NAMES ADVISORY COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
> The co-chairs were already known, Jack Marburger, the President's
> Science Advisor, and Floyd Kvamme, a Silicon Valley venture
> capitalist.  Most of the 24 members are from the information-
> technology industry. Unlike past Councils, there is virtually no
> representation from research scientists.  Even the few academics
> best known as administrators.  The sole exception is Charles
> Arntzen, a plant biologist from Arizona State University.

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