Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Briefing of Vice President Cheney at the White House regarding Project Bioshield (I made up the name) which is requesting his help in getting me special authorities for Countermeasure Advanced Development. Meeting included VP Cheney, “Scooter” Libby (both on teleconference from secret location), Secretary Thompson, Stewart Simonson, Bill Raub, Carol Kuntz, Noreen Hynes, Seth Carus. Bill Raub presented the need for a $1-2$ billion Vaccine Trust Fund. Meeting went extremely well. VP was very supportive of my proposals and told Carol to set up a meeting between me, TGT, Stewart and Josh Bolten. Also met later in the day with Richard Danzig (former Secretary of the Navy under Clinton). He is a private consultant under contract to the DoD for Biodefense and wanted to get to know me since he has “heard so much about me”. He wants to start an informal group of people linked by common interest in biodefense.