Panel warns that the U.S. is unprepared and lacks infrastructure to detect attacks.
News Staff | March 18, 2015
The
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
concluded that the U.S. is unprepared for a biological or chemical
weapons attack and lacks the infrastructure necessary to detect such an
attack.
The panel, consisting of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), former Sen.
Joe Lieberman, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, former Sen. Tom
Daschle, former Rep. Jim Greenwood and the Honorable Kenneth Wainstein,
concluded the third of four meetings on the subject.
“Our legislative and executive branches are not capable of producing an
effective reaction to an eventual biological threat,” Whitehouse said in
a press release. “The Blue Ribbon Study Panel is addressing a vital
issue that government hasn’t been able to rally behind.”
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