CDC Tells Federal Court – “FOIA Means Nothing to Us. We’ll Withhold Whatever We Want…”

Bolen Report

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen
Saturday, November 12th,  2011

This article is a direct follow-up to an article I wrote October 4th, 2011 titled “The CDC Has Known All Along How Dangerous Vaccines Are – And Has Covered It Up… (Part One)” where I explained about Brian Hooker PhD’s lawsuit against the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for withholding public information he, and every American citizen, is entitled to under the US Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA).  Brian Hooker has been investigating the five so-called “studies” the CDC claims prove that Thimerosal in vaccines does not cause Autism nor neurological disorders.

Today I will tell you the CDC’s formal response.  The title of this article pretty well sums up the CDC position.  Will they get away with this?  Nope.  Keep reading.

Laying the groundwork…

First, let me tell you about Julie Gerberding, the head of the CDC from 2002 through 2009.  She was running things at CDC when Brian Hooker PhD began making his FOIA requests – and was being stonewalled.  She was there for seven years.

President Obama fired her as head of CDC in early 2009.  Within just a few weeks Gerberding went from that $250,000 per year CDC salary to become the president of Merck’s Vaccine Division at an estimated salary of $2,500,000 per year.

Nice, huh?   Gets fired – three weeks later gets a job that pays ten (10) times what she made in the government. (squint your eyes, and wrinkle your nose here – as though there was a bad smell suddenly in the room.).

Gerberding came to CDC in 2002, and as stated in the Wikipedia article I already mentioned:

“Soon after her arrival at the CDC, Gerberding began an overhaul of the agency’s organizational structure. On April 21, 2005 Gerberding formally announced the reorganization of CDC to “confront the challenges of 21st-century health threats”.^[1] This reorganization resulted in the following structure:^[2]

• Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention (CCEHIP)
  • National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
  • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
• Coordinating Center for Health Information Service (CCHIS)
  • National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
  • National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI)
• Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CCHP)
  • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID)
  • National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
  • National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
  • National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED)
  • National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID)
• Coordinating Office for Global Health (COGH)
• Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER)
  • Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

After the restructuring began, many of the CDC’s senior scientists and leaders either left or announced plans to leave.^[3]“

Let me state that last phrase in the quote once again – for emphasis:

After the restructuring began, many of the CDC’s senior scientists and leaders either left or announced plans to leave.^[3]“

When you look carefully at Gerberding’s restructuring, it looks to me, like virtually every restructured sub agency had everything to do with PROMOTING VACCINES; selling the idea of vaccines, coordinating vaccines, keeping public records of vaccines, getting money from other agencies to buy vaccines and distribute them, etc.

It doesn’t surprise me a bit that Merck found her services valuable, and was willing to pay her for those services – after the fact.  Merck, according to an article in Xconomy.com:

“Julie Gerberding, the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been in one of those rare positions for about the past 18 months as president of Merck’s vaccine unit. At Merck (NYSE: MRK), she has been learning the ins and outs of a $5-billion-a-year operation that makes 14 of the 17 vaccines the CDC recommends for children, and nine of the 10 recommended for adults.”

Get the picture?

So, Why Is This Important?

Brian Hooker PhD began making his FOIA request of Gerberding’s agency in 2004, right when Gerberding was to establish her big vaccine over-push, called a re-structuring, mentioned above.  Revealing embarrassing information, like the fact that VACCINES WERE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, the fact that the CDC knew that, and covered those facts up right about then, would not have played well with the so-called restructuring.

So, no one would be surprised, if that info was illegally withheld, now would they?

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