What we KNOW about this administration is bad enough, lord only knows

it's the stuff we DON'T know and what we're left to SIMPLY SPECULATE about that gives me the creeps...

On the grounds of a military base an hour's drive from the capital, the Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike any seen since biological weapons were banned 34 years ago.

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[M]uch of what transpires at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) may never be publicly known, because the Bush administration intends to operate the facility largely in secret.

In an unusual arrangement, the building itself will be classified as highly restricted space, from the reception desk to the lab benches to the cages where animals are kept. Few federal facilities, including nuclear labs, operate with such stealth. It is this opacity that some arms-control experts say has become a defining characteristic of U.S. biodefense policy as carried out by the Department of Homeland Security, NBACC's creator.

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Some of the research falls within what many arms-control experts say is a legal gray zone, skirting the edges of an international treaty outlawing the production of even small amounts of biological weapons.

The administration dismisses these concerns, however, insisting that the work of NBACC is purely defensive and thus fully legal. It has rejected calls for oversight by independent observers outside the department's network of government scientists and contractors. And it defends the secrecy as necessary to protect Americans.

let me toss out a few questions... with what we know about bushco so far, what do you think...? is the work "purely defensive and purely legal...?" is such intense secrecy "necessary to protect americans...?" can you say "department of homeland security" with a straight face...? imho, anyone who takes more than a milli-second to answer "BULLSHIT," "NO," "NO," and "NO," accompanied by hooting and derisive laughter, either hasn't been paying attention or doesn't WANT to pay attention...

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