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That’s why this charge from former Obama-administration officials — including Beth Cameron, who served as the senior director for global health security and biodefense on the National Security Council (NSC) under Obama — is so serious: that the Trump administration’s decision to “dismantle” the directorate the Obama administration created to quarterback pandemic responses is to blame for “leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19.”

Former Trump officials, including former national-security adviser John Bolton and Tim Morrison, have disputed Cameron’s characterization. They say that there has always been a highly competent team at the NSC focused on and coordinating efforts to recognize and handle the threat of pandemics.

The facts back up Bolton and Morrison. During the summer of 2018, Bolton reorganized the Trump NSC. In January 2017, there were directorates for nonproliferation and arms control, for weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, and for global health security and biodefense. Bolton merged the three directorates into a “counterproliferation and biodefense” directorate. According to administration officials I spoke with, this reorganization was designed in part to have better cooperation between those monitoring and preparing for intentional biological threats on one hand and for naturally occurring biological threats on the other. This directorate is now headed by Anthony Ruggiero.

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The Truth about the National Security Council’s Pandemic Team

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-truth-national-security-council-pandemic-team/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in&utm_term=third







The whole article is a good read.

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Too bad National Review is garbage though. The national review are right wing politics apologist.

You might as well watch Fox News lol.

Bolton got the funk away from there because he is smart he did want to be convicted for the crimes that are being committed. Trump intentionally nominated a swamp monster to join his swamp team.

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Out of curiosity: is there any right-leaning media that you consider credible and 'acceptable'?

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Evidence is rising that the virus leaked from a Chinese facility

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs/

The two biggest tells are the Chinese response (Why would the Chinese hide their numbers?/Censor journalists? if they had nothing to hide) (Also how did the Chinese know what to look for in the initial RT-PCR/Northern Blot tests on the first patients?/ They could only get that information from a laboratory that studied the virus)

Can we call it the fucking China virus now?

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The United States is the epicenter of the disease so it's really the American virus.

Besides calling it the China virus is stupid. It actually has a name and doesn't need king tard renaming it.

It's good instincts. Using xenophobia to make a healthcare disaster and botched response seem like a foreign attack on Americans is clever, but i would rather have actual competence.

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Get the fuck out.

You cant even spell northern blot.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Apr 4 2020 11:00am)

Get the fuck out.

You cant even spell northern blot.