[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Walter Reed Medical Center (DC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Walter Reed's Dark Secrets

The Fight Back (DC)
October 10, 2010


Walter Reed Medical Center has secrets. In its Pulitzer Prize winning 
series in 2007, the Washington Post revealed a few of Walter Reed's more 
recent secrets when it exposed the inadequate conditions and care 
injured soldiers were being subjected to. But the Post didn't discuss 
Walter Reed's older and darker secrets. As 62.5 acres of the 113 acre 
campus is being turned over from the military to the District, it's time 
to come clean about Walter Reed's history.

Stephen Whatley is chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4A, which 
includes Walter Reed. Seven or eight years ago, men in orange hazmat 
suits were swarming around the campus, said Whatley. Nobody, not even 
Walter Reed's immediate neighbors, including Whatley, has been given an 
explanation for the individuals in the hazmat suits. Whatley questions 
whether they were searching for something that had escaped from the 
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

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For the entire article, see
http://thefightback.org/2010/10/walter-reeds-dark-secrets/#more-779

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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