MB Civic

NY Times expose from Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane (who apparently know how to do their jobs on occasion) ..

A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to members of Congress, lawyers, labor officials, journalists and even President Obama, previously undisclosed records show .. The extraordinary surveillance effort grew out of a bitter dispute lasting years between the scientists and their bosses at the F.D.A. over the scientists’ claims that faulty review procedures at the agency had led to the approval of medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies that exposed patients to dangerous levels of radiation .. The scientists who have been let go [incl. Dr. Robert C. Smith and Dr. Julian Nicholas] say in a lawsuit that their treatment was retaliation for reporting their claims of mismanagement and safety abuses in the F.D.A.’s medical reviews

i suspect the makers of said medical imaging devices (i.e. GE Healthcare) might, just might, have had a hand in this as well – mab .. read more