https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/11/26/claire-mccaskill-desperately-weighs-in-on-siga-scandal/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 09:18:09 -0400<![CDATA[Background: several weeks ago the LA Times reported that the Obama administration had steered nearly half a billion dollars&#8217; worth of a no-bid contract on a secondary smallpox vaccine &#8211; one not actually tested on human beings &#8211; to Siga Technology, a company controlled by longtime Democratic party contributor Ronald Perelman. Needless to say, the drug&#8217;s much more expensive than the primary drug, the government interfered with the bidding process, and people pretended afterward that no correspondence between the company and the government took place.]]>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:00:52 -0500<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/11/26/claire-mccaskill-desperately-weighs-in-on-siga-scandal-n41290