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To: TobagoJack who wrote (176397)8/15/2021 10:53:05 AM
From: arun gera  Respond to of 217657
 
<but still be correct about Fauci.>

As if the Department of Infectious Diseases is only for public safety. Wouldn't a nation want to protect its soldiers from biowarfare?

As if NASA space research has nothing to do with ICBMs.

Fauci's department's secondary role is probably known to every senator but Rand Paul plays as if he is hearing for the first time. Unless, he is as ignorant as Rick Perry was before he took on his job as the Energy Secretary under Trump...

nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.

In the days after, Mr. Perry, the former Texas governor, discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.

Two-thirds of the agency’s annual $30 billion budget is devoted to maintaining, refurbishing and keeping safe the nation’s nuclear stockpile; thwarting nuclear proliferation; cleaning up and rebuilding an aging constellation of nuclear production facilities;