Is Robert Gibbs lying again, or is this just another White House communication failure?
Today, Gibbs claimed that detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay would NOT be receiving H1N1 vaccine as millions and millions of taxpaying, law-abiding Americans wait for the government to provide them with Swine Flu protection.
FOX News reports:
Guantanamo Bay detainees will be receiving the H1N1 vaccine, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday, even though White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said minutes earlier that the vaccine is not "on the way."
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Gibbs was correct in saying the vaccine is not currently on its way, but clarified that it will be at the naval base on Cuba by the end of November.
"The department has an obligation to care for persons in its custody and we take that seriously," Whitman told Fox News. "There is a limited supply of this vaccine so we have prioritized our population."
Whitman said the vaccine would go first to deployed forces, then active duty, then health care workers, then detainees and then non-American contractors working for the Department of Defense.
Gibbs was less forthcoming when asked about earlier reports in which military officials said the vaccine would soon be on its way. Following some complaints that the detainees could be receiving the treatment before other Americans, Gibbs seemed to suggest that there were no plans to vaccinate the 215 detainees remaining in the facility.
"There is no vaccine in Guantanamo. There is no vaccine on the way to Guantanamo," Gibbs said. "I don't know what the Pentagon said. ... There wasn't any there and there wasn't any on the way."
How sleazy of Gibbs to play word games!
The Obama administration is not the most transparent in American history.
It's very, very opaque.
Bottom line: Gitmo detainees will likely get vaccinated before you do. Moreover, they won't have to stand in line for hours.
The Obama administration has really screwed up on protecting Americans during this pandemic. It's failed miserably. MISERABLY.
It's November. I expected to have received my vaccine weeks ago.
In the meantime, I'm washing my hands raw.
Obama has been tested and he failed.
Put our health care system in the government's hands?
No way in hell.
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