Domestic Defense

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Raymcfarld () aol com
Date: October 13, 2005 6:10:09 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
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 () farber net 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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