GAO finds that DOD has stopped trying to find veterans used in Cold War experiments that used chemical weapons and biological weapons and drugs such as LSD and PCP. They basically just gave up in 2003 and have no plan to continue.

On Thursday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed what many of the veterans involved in the Cold War Experiments, known as Operation SHAD/112, Edgewood Arsenal's chemical weapon and drug tests 1955 - 1975 and the Fort Detrick  Biological Weapon tests from 1953 - 1972. There were thousands of soldiers used in these experiments, on ships, on the ground and in the air, they were exposed to many types of toxic materials and many of the programs have never conducted follow up medical studies.

A few of the programs have ran some studies but the way the Institute of Medicine (IOM) received the contracts from the DOD it was constructed to ignore much of the known research already done. This is a given there is not much in the way of living victims of chemical weapons and biological weapons attacks. The 1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin attack, the victims of Iran/Iraqs war in the 1980s, but we don't have much interchange with Iran.

Uh oh.

Time to schedule more ethics classes, or perhaps a course in basic reporting, professional writing, or English 101.  Or another closed-door Senate investigation.

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee summoned top Pentagon officials to a closed-door session on Capitol Hill on Friday to explain a reported secret military campaign in Iraq to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media. The White House also expressed deep concerns about the program.

Senior Pentagon officials said on Thursday that they had not yet received any explanation of the program from top generals in Iraq, including Gen. John P. Abizaid, Gen. George W. Casey Jr. and Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, the three most senior commanders for Iraqi operations.

Yesterday, I returned eight Case Studies to students who failed to document their sources properly and accurately.  If I'd known sooner, I could have referred them to the Lincoln Group or recommended that they apply for a job in the Bush Administration. Other options, of course, include signing up with one of the disgraced former Incredibles that Congress has been forced to investigate.