I hate politics but this is an interesting read...

[bparker]

Conspiracy Theory for the Conspiracy Buffs

This is how the CIA does it. Andrew Speaker, the airline "passenger" with a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis is running a controlled C.I.A. exercise to research biological warfare and the public's panic response. This was a test run. The guy will recover. Trust me.

"The Passenger" (an educated white attorney from Atlanta) went to the US Naval Academy (probably where he was recruited by the CIA) and his father was a judge. He marries the daughter of a infectious disease "specialist" at the CDC who is working on the TB project. Out of the blue, he gets a drug-resistant rare form of TB? First of all, no one in Atlanta is going to get a normal case of TB, let alone this. They've never talked about how he got it. How would he have contact with it except for her Daddy has a test vial of some mutant strain biological weapon. Then, after being diagnosed, no one has any idea how to find him or locate him while he is in Europe with the guys daughter? His damn father in law works for the CDC and he's going to let her be exposed? Then, the guy manages to get on an off half a dozen planes (i can send you his travel list) in Paris, Greece, Turkey, and Canada) before "sneaking" back into the United States.

Here's a link to today's NYTimes front page story
"TB Patient Is Related to C.D.C. Expert on Disease"

(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/he...p&oref=slogin).