<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/74a163eb-c66a-4f26-a043-15d1df80a3f5/27FD06B0-A2F4-426C-B309-1B21BCEC42F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cbsnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml"> <A class="blog_small" href="javascript:loadAuthor('politics/politicalhotsheet', 503544, 'Declan_McCullagh')">Declan McCullagh</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml">April 28, 2009 </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml"><DIV>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures to be followed if the <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/27/health/main4970710.shtml" target="new" class="link">swine flu outbreak</A> eventually makes quarantines necessary. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml"><DIV>DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by <B>CBSNews.com</B>, on Monday night. It says: "The Department of Justice has established legal federal authorities pertaining to the implementation of a quarantine and enforcement. Under approval from HHS, the Surgeon General has the authority to issue quarantines." </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml">Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/nprm/docs/42CFR70_71.pdf" target="new" class="link">$250,000 fine</A> and a <A href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00000271----000-.html" target="new" class="link">one-year prison term</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml"><DIV>McGaw appears to have been referring to the section of <A href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00000264----000-.html" target="new" class="link">federal law</A> that allows the Surgeon General to detain and quarantine Americans "reasonably believed to be infected" with a communicable disease. A Centers for Disease Control official <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/28/health/main4975082.shtml">said on Tuesday</A> that swine flu deaths in the U.S. are likely. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml">Pentagon</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml"><A href="http://fhp.osd.mil/aiWatchboard/pdf/DoD_PI_Implementation_Plan_August_2006_Public_Release.pdf" target="new" class="link">planning document</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml">assist </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/27FD06B0-A2F4-426C-B309-1B21BCEC42F6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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