Intelligence community assessments

Virtually every important government official (the entire Cabinet, military leaders, etc) was there.

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After the meeting he called me into his office to speak in private (Bob Woods (Chief of Staff) and Brett Davis (Special Assistant to the Secretary) were there.

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We will require demonstration of local leadership and adherence to international standards of financial accountability and transparency.

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We are committed to a policy of promoting intellectual property protection, including for pharmaceutical patents, because of its critical role in the rapid innovation, development, and commercialization of effective and safe drug therapies and vaccines.

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With more than 50 years of experience with health projects and a proven institutional capacity to manage large financial transactions, the World Bank should serve as the fiscal agent for the Fund.

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The Council would fully control all fund decisions, including determining programmatic allocations, operational rules and procedures, policies and strategies, approving financial plans and work programs, and attracting additional donations.

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Goals • Prevent new infections, treat those already afflicted, build infrastructure for health care and disease control, and develop and train medical personnel. • Identify the needs of affected areas and allow communities themselves to develop an appropriate, comprehensive set of medical, social and support services. • Build on already established institutions and networks in local areas, including research relationships to ensure countries can sustain the fight on their own over time.

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This was an extremely important trip for me in that it gave me a first-hand appreciation of the dire situation in Africa, not only with regard to HIV/AIDS, but also with regard to heath care in Africa in general.

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will come out with a proposal for a Global Trust Fund for AIDS in Africa in June at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly.

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Bill is an old and good friend who frequently includes me in social events.

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He is interested in diabetes and brought people from the American Diabetes Association with him.

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August 2, 2001 - Had meeting at NIH (Building 31, 7A-24 Conference room called by Richard Falkenrath of the National Security Council who is Ambassador to the Biological Weapons Convention.

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The lines were growing robustly and were established according to the 4 points that President Bush mentioned in his speech, i.e. they had to be in vitro fertilized embryos that fulfilled the following criteria: 1) informed consent; 2) in excess of clinical need; 3) not done as a result of financial inducement; 4) embryos not established for the purpose of research.

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Present at meeting was Ambassador Donald Mahley, Special Negotiator at State Department for Chemical/Biological Weapons, as well as representatives from Justice Dept., State, DOD, DHHS (me, John La Montagne, William Steiger), etc.

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Purpose was to review document that the group put together (White Paper) as a policy that the President will articulate in association with the USA refusing to re-certify the Biological he Weapons Conference.

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Best regards, Tony September 17 - 20 , 2001 - I have been called to several top secret meetings over a 4 days period at the White House with the National Security Council (NSC) in a group chaired by Richard Falkenrath (see other notes) to discuss short and long range plans for how to handle a bioterrorism attack, particularly one of smallpox.

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I felt that particularly budget and to a lesser extent HR centralization would not work; 5) $300,000.00 salary ; 6) Continue to do editing with royalties (especially HPIM) and remain on Board of Trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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Attending the meeting were: Robert Joseph (WH), Avis Bohlen (State), J,D, Crouch (DOD), Kenneth Juster (Commerce), Claude Allen (DHHS), Tony Fauci (NIH), Bill Steiger (DHHS), John La Montagne (NIH), Kevin Chilton (Joint Staff), Ken Baker (DOE), Alan Foley (CIA), Don Mohley (State), Michael Chertoff (Justice) September 24 - Oct.10 - Multiple meetings at White House and DHHS regarding response to Bioterrorism.

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I refused to comment; however, off the record I mentioned that the FBI was not in the room at that meeting and that I was trying to get Sec.

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It is tough for me to figure out just how much the Social Conservative/Sen.

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TGT will present our plan to Cheney within a few days, which recommends a staged (1,2,3) process that vaccinates about 500,000 health workers from Oct. 02, to December 02 and then from Jan. 03 through the end of 03 vaccinate up to 10 million responders (phsyicians, nurses, police, firefighters, EM people, primary care personnel).

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INCREDIBLE evening - Bono the lead singer of U-2 and the best selling musician in history had called my office yesterday (his chief-of-staff) to say that he wanted to talk to me by phone or preferably in person to discuss how we could partner and how he could help me in my work on trying to get AIDS treament and care and prevention to subSaharan Africa.

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Sept. 24, 2002 - Had CIA briefing and overall review of smallpox plan in Secr.

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It is my impression that the CIA information is really very soft.

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Nov. 26, 2002 - Briefing of Vice President Cheney at the White House regarding Project Bioshield (I made up the name) which is requesting his help in getting me special authorities for Countermeasure Advanced Development.

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It will not be this week and so I will be able to go to Albany to give a talk associated with my Albany Prize from last Spring.

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I had to present to the group the background and. rational for the special authorities for the NLAID director as well as the Permanent and indefinite appropriations authorities to purchase countermeasures.

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Present were Admr Stephen Abbott, Tom Ridge, Tommy Thompson, Jim Capretta, Kristen Silverberg, Chris Cox and Ginger Poers (Special Assistants to the president for Leg Affairs), Sens Gregg, Congressmen Burr, Turner Cox, Tauzin, Sen Collins; Sally Stansfield, Stewart Simonson, Carol Kuntz.

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May 31, 2003 - Extraordinary feature article on me in The Financial Times with full page picture and complimentary story.

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Present at briefing were: Carol Kuntz, Stewart Simonson, Andrew Hallman (CIA), Heather Wingard (CIA), Dr.

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Also, I was on conference call this afternoon with Secret Service, DHS, DHHS, FBI regarding a letter that contained ricin that was sent to Greenville, SC; however, now a letter addressed to the White House also containing ricin has been discovered.

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The discussions among the Secret Service, FBI, Department of Transportation, etc. is chaos.

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Times that shows that high NIH officials including Steve Katz, John Gallin and others have made hundreds of thousands of dollars consulting for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

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These are just pockets of insurgents that rarely hit targets, the real targets are the convoys of troops accompanying cars (like ours) and isolated troops on patrol, as well as more recently, Iraqi police and officials who are trying to rebuild the country.

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I saw an Iraqi collaborator who was helping the Special Forces in the North and another Iraqi came up to him when no one was around and shot him in the back of the head.

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He knew me right away since his wife is a physician (Allergist/Immunologist) and always talks about me.

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Also, the NIH Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC) is now reviewing all out side activity requests (as well as any already approved ongoing outside activities) for high ranking NIH officials such as IC Directors, Deputies, Scientific Directors, Clinical Directors, etc.

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We discussed the PEPFAR and the issues associated with it; and the new G-8 proposal that I was working on with Gary Edson.

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The other surrogates on the Team were: Elliott Abrams (Special Assist.

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Present at the briefing were Ken Bernard, Bob Kadlec, Larry Kerr, Kate Spitler (CIA) and some others.

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I favor Option #3 which is to conduct the research on IL-4-altered monkeypox in monkeys and do it as classified research.

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We would keep the design, details and results classified since if we found out that it did work in monkeys , but did not yet have a countermeasure for it, then we would expose our vulnerabilities.

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Oct. 4, 2004 - Meeting in the Situation Room of the White House to brief Ken Rapuano (Deputy to Fran Townsend) on the IL-4 - monkeypox experiment that is being proposed as a classified experiment to be performed by DHS.

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I qually puts out ht found out that years ago the OGE ruled and the DoJ confirmed that royalties collected by government employees on patents owned by the government on which the employee is an inventor cannot be considered as a financial interest and so cannot be a conflict.

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First vacation that I have had unassociated with a lecture or other business in 20 years since our honeymoon.

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One importar question is whether he would now defer to the medical judgment of public health officials, ; failed to do in 1985.

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Public Health Service, CDC, and the National Institutes Health, are of special weight and authority.'* Another important question relates to the role of scientific certainty in regulatory anc judicial decision-making.

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Purpose of the trip was fact-finding in association with the threat of an H5N1 pandemic influenza.

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They were taking very seriously cleaning up and keeping clean the commercial poultry industry.

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The commercial farms are very careful about bird flu and are meticulous in preventing infections.

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We had lunch at Van Tue Restaurant for Government Officials and then went to Viet Tiep Hospital to visit their Clinics.

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The Democrats are trying to drag in the VP and the entire WH, claiming that there was a wide conspiracy to cover-up the fact that the WH distorted intelligence to get us into a war with Iraq and that Joe Wilson was smeared by outing his CIA wife in order to get back at him for disagreeing with the evidence used for going to war with Iraq.

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On panel with me was Lee Hamliton, former co-chair of the 9/11 Commission and Patricia McGinnis, President and CEO of the Council for Excellence in Government.

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Also, Scooter Libby was there awaiting start of his trial for providing false information to the Special Investigator (Fitzgerald) about the Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame issue.

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Unfortunately, Scooter Libby was convicted today on 4 of 5 counts of lying to FBI and grand jury in association with the Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame CIA leak.

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Also, at the dinner were Janet Rehnquist, Stew Simonson, Scott Whitaker, Bruce Gellin, Lester Crawford (recently convicted for lying on his financial disclosure when he was FDA Acting Commissioner), Paula Staudard, and others.

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Scooter has been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson CIA leak (see above).

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Some friendly tension between Joel and me in that they wanted us (CDC, FDA, HHS, NIH to sign off on the roll-out document and there was a phrase in there that did not clarify that we do not do classified research.

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I had them change it to read that we should explain why it is not classified as opposed to justifying it as being unclassified.

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June 6, 2007 - Major, major world publicity regarding patient who had Extensively Drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and traveled by plane to a number of countries in Europe despite somewhat bungled instructions by Georgia (he is from Atlanta) Health Officials and the CDC to not travel.

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He recounted how after Bush won the election Karl did not want to come to DC with the POTUS because he felt that although he was a good political strategist and tactician, he did not like internecine warfare and he saw that during the administration of the POTUS's father George H.W.

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He is someone to watch; good guy; physician trained at U of Michigan and UCSF.

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Kathy and Dan Jamieson were there as were heads of schools and senior officials for the DC/VA/MD independent schools.

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Mayor Adrian Fenty and wife Michelle, former head of Italian CIA Carrado Cantatore (had nice conversation with him about Italian covert ops in Iraq - i.e.

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Italian Special Forces are still operating there even as Italian troops pull out), Sen.

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This is causing racial tensions and blacks are getting pissed at Bill and Hillary.

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We were briefed by 2 CIA young women who provided the same vague, soft and even embarrassingly bad intelligence that I have been briefed on several times before by CIA.

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Also present were Julie Gerberding, Art Friedlander, Ben Petro, Gerry Parker and a whole bunch of CIA, Counter-terrorist people, Defense intelligence people, etc.

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The law is officially H.R. 5501 - The Tom Lantos and Henry J.

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Congress trying to agree on a $700 Billion bailout package for financial institutions to restore the credit flow in the USA.

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Nov.24, 2008 - Breakfast and panel discussion at the National Press Club in association with my (and others) receiving the recognition of America's Best Leaders 2008 (24 Leaders Who are Making a Difference) by U.S.

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I told her that I preferred to stay at NIAID.), Bob Mueller (FBI), Gen.

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Interesting that in January of 1993 I was given a certificate of Appreciation by HHS for being a leader in the establishment of Parallel Track .

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The young people there was amazing: wounded vets of the Iraq war now going to Harvard Business School; Physicians studying economics, health people in government schools.

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He was a member of the NIAID AIDS Research Advisory Committee from 1991 to 1995 and served on NIAID's Advisory Council from 1995 to 1998, and well as on many other official advisory committees.

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Other awardees were Steven Chu (Secretary of Energy and the Commencement Speaker), Pedro Almodovar (Famous Spanish filmmaker), author Joan Didion, religious historian Wendy Doniger, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, anthropologist Sarah Hrdy, engineer Robert Langer, musician Wynton Marsalis, and political scientist Sidney Verba.

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They just have a different philosophy that they control message and a person can only speak about what their official responsibility is, i.e.

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She recognized me in the audience and made a comment during her official remarks about the great work that I have been doing for so many years with HIV/AIDS.

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She is Deputy to John Brennan at the National Security Council at the White House.

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Obviously, WH sources know about me despite the sometimes discouraging relationships that I have had with HHS and their lack of appreciation about who I am and what I have done over the years.

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Present at the meeting were: Peter Kim (Merck), Lloyd Klickstein (Novartis), Rob Mashal (NKT Therapeutics), Sandy Hecker (Hecker and Associates), Lynn Marks (GSK), Richard Hatchett.

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There are still important conversations to continue with our commercial partners.

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She pointed out that the industry itself has recently struggled with producing approved medical products for more highly valued commercial products.

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There are still important conversations to continue with our commercial partners.

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Usual stars were there - Sonya Sotamayor, Desiree Rogers (Social Secretary at the WH), Justice Breyer, Dave Gergen, Wolf Blitzer, Andrea Mitchell, etc/

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Merck makes Rotatec, which is used mainly in the USA and so the FDA recommends that where possible, clinicians switch from Rotarix to Rotatec.

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Patricia Conrad Special Assistant to the Director office The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information.

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David, who recently (last year) had a cardiac arrest associated with a myocardial infarction on a golf course, looked shook and distracted.

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Many African health officials such as Peter Mugyenyi are openly complaining about this and getting agitated.

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I believe that the FDA/NIH study is contaminated and I do not believe Shy Lo since in the late 1980s he had claimed with what appeared to be fool-proof data that AIDS was associated with a new species of mycoplasma (M. fermentans) as a co-factor.

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With respect to Heidi, she comes from the intelligence community so doesn't have a scientific or pharmaceutical background, but as you'll see she is a very quick study.

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Tony: You achieved what we needed for OMB and State leadership get a feel of the breakthrough and the context of the O52 findings, largely due to your clarity , candor and authenticity... thanks my friend Eric PERSONAL This email is UNCLASSIFIED.

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Many researchers are now saying that we have the tools needed for effective prevention, and social phenomena are the main obstacle to slowing the spread of HIV (see Comment: 'Stigma impedes AIDS prevention').

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The burden of HIV/AIDS is overwhelmingly felt in resource-poor countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which are least equipped to deal with the disease.

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Hello Patricia, I have been given your name as best contact to see about scheduling a date that Dr.

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Purpose of the meeting was to plan a strategy that the WH and the POTUS should take in addressing and utilizing the recent scientific advances associated with HIV prevention, particularly treatment as prevention (HPTN-052) in turning around the HIV pandemic.

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My purpose was to convince the CEOs to get involved in supporting financially and otherwise the Global AIDS Pandemic activities.

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Very engaged group; was told by conveners that the fellows loved the talk and found it the best among many talks by White House people, and other government officials.

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Only official witnesses were Francis Collins and Tom Insel (Director NIMH) who was there in his capacity as Acting Director of NCATS.

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Heidi has always been a very good friend to me and she informs me that she will be leaving the national security staff to go back to her major post at the CIA.

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