On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.

On March 23, 2005, heads of government Vincente Fox, George W. Bush, and Paul Martin launched the North American partnership at a meeting in Waco, Texas, with the expressed goal of “a safer, more prosperous North America.”

In an effort to appease radical pro-abortion activists, the Clinton Food and Drug Administration hastily approved the abortion pill, RU-486, on September 28, 2000. Judicial Watch immediately filed a FOIA request and then battled the government in court to force the release of documents pertaining to the decision to approve the drug. JW learned through the document release that the FDA approved RU-486 under the "Accelerated Approval of New Drugs for Serious or Life-threatening Illnesses," a measure intended to apply to drugs for illnesses such as cancer and AIDS.

Document Notes Possible Iraq Efforts to Obtain Uranium, but Loss of International Aid and Difficulty Moving Uranium Secretly Cited as Major Disincentives for Niger

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that document 226 incursions by Mexican government personnel into the United States between 1996 and 2005. Released to Judicial Watch on August 28th in response to a November 1, 2005 FOIA request, the records consist of annual intelligence summaries of "Mexican Government Incidents," compiled over a nine year period. They were designated as "limited official use" by the DHS, requiring "special protection against unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure."

Background

The State Department documents were produced to Judicial Watch last week in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed with the State Department on December 11, 2001 concerning the government of Sudan’s reported offer to share intelligence files on Osama bin Laden. The Clinton administration also reportedly rebuffed an offer by Sudanese officials to turn bin Laden himself over to the U.S.