Frederick Banting Quotes
On February 19th, Dr. Collip found that he was unable to refine the extract by his method and was unable to keep up his supply to the wards. During the following six weeks, or longer, no extract was available for clinical tests. I believe the reason for this to be that Collip, wishing to keep his process a secret, had not kept careful records.
Banting, Frederick G. "The Story of Insulin", 1940. Quoted in Bliss, Michael. Banting: A Biography. McClelland and Stewart, 1984.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
While it is true that almost all nations have intelligence agencies and collect intelligence about both friends and foes, our allies did not bug the personal phones of leaders of friendly countries and were very distressed when they discovered that the US NSA had access to the personal calls of world leaders including the leaders of Brazil, Germany and France. Rubio and others believed that they only reason our allies had not done so is that they did not have the technical capability to do so; otherwise they would have been bugging our Presidential and cabinet level phones. President Obama ordered the practice stopped with respect to our allies.
Several unwitting subjects were permanently mentally damaged from the large doses of LSD the Central Intelligence Agency administered to them. They thought that the drugs might function as a truth serum or have other effects that they could take advantage of. The Central Intelligence Agency was conducting these “scientific experiments” but had no scientists to design and carry out responsible research. There are few controls on the agency because so much they do they classified as secret. These activities were kept secret for years, but when they were finally disclosed, there was special legislation curbing this type of dangerous, damaging, unethical and totally unproductive so called research. See {612802} for his personal reaction to this activity.
Snowden, was a contract worker for Booz Allan assigned to the National Security Agency (NSA). He felt that some of the NSA activities were illegal and unethical and tried to complain to NSA officials who rebuffed him. Despite the fact that he had signed an agreement not to do so, he copied many critical, classified documents that exposed much of the NSA activities that the NSA officials had denied existed—including lying under oath to the Senate. He then made many of them public, violating his oath, breaking the law, and opening up an entire area of government spying which most Americans knew nothing about and about which senior government officials had lied under oath to Congress. They of course wanted to prosecute Snowden who had told the truth, while they had lied. For many Americans, this became a moral and ethical conundrum.
to enhance its ability to conduct surveillance
2 weeks before a military junta, with the knowledge of America, overthrew the popularly elected, left wing President, Salvador Allende (see {640618}). America was very supportive of the new military junta. However, whereas the coup itself was not very bloody as all the military forces were on one side. However, General Pinochet and the other coup leaders, under the guise of “cleanup operations” murdered thousands of supporters of the deposed President, including many academics and writers. The total number will never be known, but this CIA cable was the harbinger of things to come in the new Chilean regime where any dissident or critic of the government under the military could lead to arrest, torture and often murder or “disappearance”. Years later Pinochet and others were convicted for crimes against humanity. The American silence during this period has always been a very controversial moral and political policy. It was in the midst of the Cold War and the Chilean Junta was strongly anti-Communist. The Junta kept denying the accusations crimes against political opponents and claimed that the reports were communist inspired to discredit them. The CIA knew much of the truth and never shared it with all of the Congress or the public. It is not clear which politicians knew and remained silent and which never knew nor knew that the CIA knew much of the criminal activity.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting KBE MC FRS FRSC was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.
