Hauer oversaw NYC's response to building collapses

Welcome!

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Join our community!

Hauer oversaw NYC's response to building collapses; Prior to 9/11
Topic Started: Jul 11 2008, 06:23 AM (251 Views)
DoYouEverWonder	Jul 11 2008, 06:23 AM Post #1
Posts: 431 Group: Members Member #206 Joined: 01/24/08	In other word's Jerome Hauer knew alot more then most people about ways to bring down buildings, among his many other talents, such as his expertise in bioterrorism and his connections to WTC Security when he was managing Director for Kroll Int'l. Quote: What Could Go Wrong? It's His Job to Know By RANDY KENNEDY Published: July 27, 1999 JERRY HAUER, to put it bluntly, likes guts. Meaning viscera, innards, the stuff things are made of. There is one story he tells in which this fascination is quite literal (more on that later). But another illustration, a bit more metaphorical, is hard to miss when you walk into his office on the 23d floor of 7 World Trade Center, otherwise known as ''the bunker,'' the $13 million bulletproof, hurricane-proof, blackout-proof emergency crisis center opened by the city last month. Mr. Hauer's office looks nothing like a bunker. It has comfortable chairs and picture windows that frame the Woolworth Building. But in one corner there is also a big stack of mismatched bricks that attests to the unusual function of this office and the unusual fascinations of its holder. As the city's chief emergency manager, Mr. Hauer oversees the response to building collapses, of which there have been no shortage over the last three years. And as he has sifted through piles of rubble, he has made it a point to squirrel away a chunk of each disaster. He has a brick from 540 Madison (office tower; partial facade collapse, Dec. 7, 1997), one from the entrance to the Selwyn Theater (collapsed Dec. 30, 1997) and from an apartment building at 172 Stanton Street (partial collapse; demolished Jan. 24, 1998). There's also a piece of steel about the size of a slice of bread, a cross section of the beam that fell from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium on April 13, 1998, forcing it to close. When he found out someone was about to put the beam in a Dumpster, he almost lost his temper. ''I said, 'Don't throw it away! That was two weeks of my life.' '' Those weeks were, he adds dryly, ''loads of fun.'' For much of his professional life, it has been the task of Jerome M. Hauer, 47, to know a lot about how things work so that when they stop working -- when they fall down, when they get blown down or blown up, when they freeze or burst or burn out -- he knows what to do. Like all self-described emergency junkies, he sits around all day thinking up horrifying ways for things to be destroyed and people to die and then hoping that all his plans stay on the shelf. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E2DA1E3EF934A15754C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 Edited by DoYouEverWonder, Jul 11 2008, 06:24 AM.
Posts: 431 Group: Members Member #206 Joined: 01/24/08


kenlangston	Jul 13 2008, 12:53 PM Post #2
Posts: 2 Group: Members Member #707 Joined: 07/04/08	Jerome Hauer connected to Anthrax attacks (loosely)...read on... There are 2 foreign-owned vaccine companies that had the Ames strain used in the attack on Senators Dashle and Leahy. At issue here is the virulent version of the Ames strain of the Anthrax bacteria, which was developed by the US chemical- biological-warfare establishment (CBW) For obvious reasons, a non-virulent version, lacking a protective shell and toxic proteins, is provided to non-CBW defense researchers. The virulent version is stored in Fort Detrick , the Dugaway ( Utah ) testing facility, and Department of Agriculture repositories at Iowa State , Northern Arizona and Louisiana State universities. Later, it is used by two vaccine-makers for testing. One is located in Britain , the other in the United States . The British lab is Porton Products. David R. Franz, who headed the defense-related biological-research program for the Army at Fort Detrick , Md. , between 1987 and 1998, explained that when the U.S. military had to obtain its Ames anthrax in the powdered form for testing during his tenure, it obtained it from a British military research laboratory. That lab, owned by the British government, was the Porton Downs CBW facility in Willshire. Subsequently, in 1993, part of the anthrax defense program was "privatized" through a complex leveraged buy out of the anthrax vaccine unit, Porton Products, by a company called Speywood Holdings Ltd. Speywood, in turn was controlled by another corporate front, I&F Holdings NV, which was incorporated in the Netherlands Antilles. The I&F shell was owned by Fuad El-Hibri, a Lebanese Arab with German citizenship, his father, Ibrihim El-Hibri and other undisclosed investors. Prior to the LBO, Fuad El-Hibri had worked in the key Citibank branch in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia that specialized in arranging investments for large Saudi investors. Saudi Arabia , at that point, was interested in obtaining an anthrax vaccine, which the US would not provide, to counter Saddam's CBW capabilities. When El-Hibri took over and became biotech director of Porton, he reorganized its bio-terrorism defense business, and helped supervise deliveries of bio-tech defense products to Saudi Arabia . The second foreign-controlled company is Bioport in Michigan . Bioport had gotten in the CBW defense business in September 1998 by taking over Michigan Biology Products Institute, or MBPI. MBPI, which held the exclusive contract for providing the US government with Anthrax vaccine, originally had been owned by the State of Michigan. In the mid 1980s, it was found that its Anthrax vaccine was less effective against the Ames strain than against the Vullom strain used by the USSR . So further testing was necessary with the virulent version of the Ames strain on guinea pigs, mice and monkeys. Like Porton, MBPI got specimens of the virulent strain. (In November 2001, an environmental assessment report of its planned laboratory renovations was found in the Kabul house of a Pakistani scientist by US intelligence, suggesting its facility was of interest to foreign scientists). The take-over of MBPI had been organized by the same Fuad El- Hibri who took over Porton in the UK , . He used a labyrinth of corporations, including an entity called Intervac, whose controlling shareholder was his I and F Holdings N.V in the Netherlands-Antilles. To facilitate the deal, El-Hibri applied for (and received) US citizenship and gave a valuable stake in Intervac to Admiral William J. Crowe Jr, who had headed the Joint Chief of staff during the Clinton Administration. As a result of these maneuvers, I& F NV — Ibraham and Fuad and their Antillian associates— had a controlling stake in two private labs that had the only vaccine for Anthrax. Their facilities also may have had the only specimens of the virulent version of the Ames strain outside of government repositories. At least one of these facilities, Porton, moreover, had it in the dry powder form used in the attack on the US Senate Office Building. On September 4, 1998, Faud El-Hibri and a investment group controlled by former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William Crowe, Jr. purchases Michigan Biologic Products Institute, which is subsequently named Emergent BioSolutions. Michigan Biologic Products Institute owned exclusively several licenses and patents for multiple vaccines, including the ONLY vaccine for Anthrax. It was known that Faud El-Hibri had arranged a delivery of Anthrax to Saudi Arabia in 1990 from his UK company, Bioport, when the US had refused to do so. The Michigan Biologic Products Institute became temporarily privatized by order of then-republican Governor, John Engler, when the FDA threatened to close the facility because of mismanagement. After the purchase, it became known that the temporary owners of the institute who participated in bid evaluation and award were named as 32% owners of the investment group who purchased it. The issue was raised but not pursued. El-Hibri and Crowe (via his investment group) purchased the institute for several millions of dollars (potentially hundreds of millions) under its value considering the contracts that were already in place for future sales to the Department of Defense (contracts the DOD administered while Crowe was in negotiations to buy the company). Under the deal (approved by then-republican Governor John Engler), the state loaned El-Hibri and Crowe most of the money required to make the purchase – INTEREST FREE. One week after 9/11, Senators Dashle and Leahy receive letters containing Anthrax. The FBI subsequently identifies the strain is genetically identical to stock held at the Ames Research Laboratory. June 21, 2005 Miller Urges Greater Effort on Security By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/nyregion/metrocampaigns/21miller.html?_r=1&sq=Jerome%20Hauer&st=nyt&oref=login&scp=3&pagewanted=print The City Council speaker, Gifford Miller, unveiled a new homeland security plan yesterday and brandished an endorsement of his mayoral campaign from Jerome M. Hauer, an expert on biological and chemical terrorism who was director of the city's Office of Emergency Management under former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. In his speech, delivered at the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Center for Emergency Preparedness Training, Mr. Miller proposed spending $100 million as part of an effort to more tightly integrate health providers into the city's response planning. He also urged the creation of a 50,000-strong "Citizen Corps" trained and organized to assist city officials in an emergency. Noting that the existing civilian stockpile of anthrax vaccine for the entire United States was "barely large enough to cover a third of Staten Island," Mr. Miller proposed also that New York amass its own stockpile of the vaccine. That might come as good news to Emergent BioSolutions, a company in Gaithersburg, Md., that owns the anthrax vaccine manufacturer BioPort, and which appointed Mr. Hauer to its board of directors this month. A spokesman for the Miller campaign, Reggie Johnson, said yesterday that the campaign had been unaware of Mr. Hauer's membership on the board, and that the stockpile was a worthwhile proposal on its own merits. "This is an issue of public safety, not personalities," Mr. Johnson said. "As mayor, Gifford Miller will do whatever it takes to protect New Yorkers." Mr. Miller also called for the creation of a city department of homeland security to prepare for and respond to security threats. But William T. Cunningham, a spokesman for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, said that Mr. Hauer's involvement "calls into question the whole press conference." In the 2001 mayoral race, Mr. Hauer endorsed the Democratic candidate Mark Green, whose own security proposals he helped develop.
Posts: 2 Group: Members Member #707 Joined: 07/04/08


SPreston	Jul 14 2008, 04:42 PM Post #3
Patriotic American Posts: 1,229 Group: Members Member #122 Joined: 01/18/08	Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment Jerome Hauer Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Jerome Hauer, director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness. On September 11, 2001, Jerome Hauer was a national security advisor with the National Institute of Health, a managing director with Kroll Associates, and a guest on national television. His background in counter-terror and his specialized knowledge of biological warfare served him well on that day. Perhaps a little too well. Anthrax Attacks On September 11, 2001, Jerome Hauer advised the White House to begin taking Cipro, an antibiotic which is effective against anthrax. Mr. Hauer's advice was not made public. Its value may have been underestimated at the time, but it was clearly demonstrated a week later, when the first anthrax letters appeared, and again three weeks after that, when anthrax appeared in letters to Democratic Senators Daschle and Leahy. The obvious question is: Did Jerome Hauer know about the anthrax attacks in advance? Prior Knowledge? Strangely, perhaps, this is not the first time questions of prior knowledge have surfaced in Jerome Hauer's wake. Jerome Hauer joined New York City's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) in 1998 and quickly obtained funding from the office of then-mayor Rudy Giuliani for the study of West Nile virus. The following year the virus appeared in the city, and Jerome Hauer led the fumigation effort. Did Jerome Hauer know this was going to happen? Or did he just get "lucky"? And how could anyone know such a thing was going to happen? Unless ... unless ... The Sound Of Two Feet Dragging Strangely, perhaps, Jerome Hauer managed the NIH response to the anthrax attacks. The anthrax used in the attacks was identified as an Ames strain, which means it had to have come from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Jerome Hauer received relatively good information for tracking down the origin of the anthrax. He even got a list of people from various institutes, including USAMRIID at Fort Detrick. But his response was slow and hidden behind a public relations campaign spreading Orwellian claims like "Suspects are Osama bin Laden and his Al-Q'aeda network and sympathizers to US right wing extremists". Why would he act so slowly, and in such an inappropriate fashion? Perhaps because Jerome Hauer knew someone whose name was on that list? Stephen Hatfill, at one time considered a prime suspect in this still-unsolved case, had worked for USAMRIID at Fort Detrick. Strangely, perhaps, he had also worked with Jerome Hauer, for Scientific Applications International Corporation, at the Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis. http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html



1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)


« Previous Topic · World Trade Center · Next Topic »