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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:17 PM

Published 11/04/2009 by Reuters


Is swine flu vaccine going to Guantanamo? Define “going”

Conservative politicians and commentators got up in arms this week after the Pentagon said it would send doses of hard-to-get H1N1 swine flu vaccine to terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.

The White House denied it on Tuesday, emphatically, but also carefully — saying there...

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