In an April 2001 study for the National Defense University National War College, Kadlec urgently recommended the creation of a Strategic National Stockpile to warehouse countermeasures including vaccines and antibiotics, and recommended regulatory changes to provide for mandatory vaccinations and coercive quarantines in the event of a pandemic. Those ideas helped win him an appointment as Special Assistant for Biodefense Planning to President George W. Bush after the post–September 11 anthrax attacks later that same year.15 From this sinecure, Kadlec’s fervent lobbying persuaded Congress to
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