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To: longnshort who wrote (272920)	2/8/2006 4:06:54 PM
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What can you expect from an incompetent president.......... <<...(CBS) The chairman of the House committee overseeing Project Bioshield — the government’s project to create drugs to respond to possible terrorist attacks — wants the program’s director taken off the project. Rep. Tom Davis, R.-Va., tells 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley that Assistant Secretary Stewart Simonson, a political appointee who is in charge of Project Bioshield at the Department of Health and Human Services, shows the same kind of "arrogance" and "lack of experience" as former FEMA director Michael Brown. Davis talks to Bradley about a possible radiation sickness drug the Pentagon endorses and deems worth developing, but that critics say Simonson has now slow tracked, this Sunday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Bioshield was created to prepare the United States for terrorism by developing and stockpiling drugs to treat the effects of chemical, biological and nuclear attacks. "I would transfer (Simonson) out of (Bioshield). I wouldn’t have him handling this program," Davis tells Bradley. "This is a serious job at this point and I think we need to have a professional filling it, not political appointees." Davis likens Simonson, a lawyer who previously worked at Amtrak, the national railroad, to Brown. "I think we’re seeing the same kind of issues (with Simonson). Michael Brown had been before our committee prior to Katrina and exhibited the same kind of arrogance, a lack of expertise," says Davis. "To date, (Simonson) has been singularly unimpressive in this particular area." The area Davis refers to is a project to produce a treatment for acute radiation sickness. Estimates for the doses necessary to prepare U.S. cities for a nuclear terrorist attack range as high as 10 million. Simonson has committed to purchasing just 100,000...>> _________________________________________________________ HOW CAN THE GOP CLAIM THAT THEY ARE KEEPING AMERICA SAFER...? cbsnews.com