[I wonder just know how the media would have treated this story
if it was Bush or Reagan in the WH. --MS]
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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Tuesday July 4, 2000; 1:38 PM EDT
Clinton Pentagon Left Troops With Leaky Gas Masks
A day before President Clinton reviewed a Fourth of July armada
assembled in New York from the decks of the aircraft carrier USS
John F. Kennedy, a military publication revealed that a key
piece of equipment in America's war on terrorism has been known
to be defective for six years, leaving the U.S. military
woefully unprepared to defend against biological, chemical and
even nuclear attack.
"The Pentagon acknowledges that more than half the protective
masks for chemical and biological warfare it tested flunked
inspections and could kill the troops they're meant to save,"
reported the Marine Corps Times on Monday.
"In a report completed in November but not made public until
congressional hearings June 21, the Defense Department said lives
are at risk because military leaders at every level place too
little emphasis on equipping and training troops for nuclear,
biological and chemical war."
Rep. Christopher Shays, R - Conn., a member of the House
Government Reform and Oversight Committee, briefed the Times on
the gas mask test results last week.
"Experts from all services, supervised by the Pentagon inspector
general, found 10,322 masks with 'critical' defects that could
cause leaks and endanger the wearers. Only 4,898 masks had no
defects," revealed the Times.
"The inspectors looked at the MCU-2/AP series protective mask
used by the Air Force, the M40/42 used by the Army and the Marine
Corps and the MCU-2/P used by the Navy."
Though the Clinton administration has for years acknowledged that
America faces a serious terrorist threat - with Secretary of
Defense William Cohen telling NBC's Tim Russert in May that a
chemical or biological weapons attack is all but inevitable -
Cohen and other senior military officials have apparently done
nothing to correct the gas mask defects even though the problem
was first revealed in 1994.
"Responding to a Defense Department hotline tip, the Pentagon
inspector general in 1994 found widespread problems in chemical
war training and equipment, particularly with the M40/42 series
protective mask," reported the Times.
The results of those earlier tests were classifed because "senior
leaders denied there was a problem, suppressed bad news and
argued over blame."
Shays says he saw the first classifed Pentagon report on the gas
mask defects in 1995 and challenged the Pentagon to either verify
or refute it.
The latest report on the gas mask problem was prepared by 20
military chemical-biological warfare experts in the Joint Service
Integration Group, which answers directly to the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
"I am grateful we've gotten beyond questioning the validity of
the findings" of the secret 1994 report, Shays told the Marine
Corps Times.
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