This is ludicrous:

The former health chief under President Bush, criticized for not doing enough to help Ground Zero heroes, is now making millions off the 9/11 tragedy, tracking the health of sick workers.

Tommy Thompson heads Logistics Health, a Wisconsin-based company that has won an $11 million contract from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track about 5,000 workers who worked at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and live outside the New York area. He was health and human services secretary from 2001 to 2005.

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Last year, the Bush administration was slammed when it abandoned efforts to treat sick workers around the country, saying it was too expensive and putting the services out to contract.

There is no rationale, no defense that can support this disgusting turn of events.

AP: Criminal Division’s former Deputy Chief of Staff, Who Quit During Abramoff Probe, Charged

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/04/former_justice_official_charge.php

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042702228_pf.html