A memo from The President. Pay attention...

[Fasglas]

So, you've come down with Ebola and you've never been to Africa? You've never even said the word, AFRICA?

Gee, that's too bad, but you're on your own.
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Obama Indemnifies Gov’t Contractors From Damages Arising from Importing Ebola to US

Obama Indemnifies Gov?t Contractors From Damages Arising from Importing Ebola to US | CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Thursday protects federal contractors hired to address the Ebola outbreak in West Africa against lawsuits for importing Ebola into the United States.

The president’s directive gives the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the authority to indemnify companies from lawsuits related to “contracts performed in Africa in support of USAID's response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa where the contractor, its employees, or subcontractors will have significant exposure to Ebola.”

“This authority may be exercised solely for the purpose of holding harmless and indemnifying contractors with respect to claims, losses, or damage arising out of or resulting from exposure, in the course of performance of the contracts, to Ebola,” the memorandum explained.

CNSNews.com emailed USAID to ask if the president’s directive also protects these companies from claims made by a U.S. citizen who contracts Ebola from an employee who brings the disease back from West Africa after working under a government contract.

An unnamed spokesperson for the agency responded: “Yes. The indemnification applies only to the extent that the claim, loss, or damage arises out of or results from exposure to Ebola in the course of performance of a contract and exceeds applicable insurance coverage.”

In other words, if a Company A employee contracts Ebola while working in West Africa, brings the disease back to the United States, is not quarantined and ends up infecting members of the general public, Company A is protected from any damages arising from lawsuits by these secondary victims.

According to the USAID spokesperson, employees of these contracted companies "provide essential services, including medical and non-medical management of Ebola patients."

In his memorandum, Obama justified his actions by citing Public Law 85-804, which allows the president to give any federal agency or department connected to national security the authority to enter into, amend or modify contracts with private companies in order to “facilitate the national defense.”

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“facilitate the national defense.”?

WTF?

[carlton_fritz]

The consummate idiot.


not that I know what that word means...

[LATB]

He's done. His legacy (Obamacare) is going to be dismantled. He's gasping for air.

[Czarvette]

The entire defense industry operates under similar indemnification, and has for decades.

[VatorMan]

Originally Posted by Czarvette

The entire defense industry operates under similar indemnification, and has for decades.

Yep. Nothing to see here. Move along folks.

[Sea Six]

Originally Posted by Czarvette

The entire defense industry operates under similar indemnification, and has for decades.

Yeah, but Obama's still a dick, which is the point of this thread.

Try to keep up.

[Bill]

I thought "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" was an accepted Pub strategy. This seems to meet the spirit of that ideology. So why the outrage?

[That Bad Man]

If there was an RFQ on FEDBIZOPS to destroy the USA, no one could respond with a better plan than the current resident of our White House...