When Tommy Thompson flacked for a client, posing as ‘former health secretary’

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Just after the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Tommy Thompson — now the GOP Senate nominee in Wisconsin — went on an ABC News web-based show to discuss counterterrorism. The video, which I mentioned in my column today, is above.

You’ll see how he says we’re not prepared for another anthrax attack because we don’t have second-generation vaccines. Then twice, unprompted, he mentions one maker of a new anthrax vaccine — PharmAthene. “I think they’re doing an excellent job,” he says of PharmAthene at one point.

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