White House Admits to Using Fake Vaccine Campaigns to Collect DNA Samples

Opposition to mass vaccination programs in Muslim countries like Pakistan, as well as several nations in Africa, is well known. Many among the local populations fear that such programs are a part of covert Western government operations. Medical authorities who promote the supposed benefits of vaccination programs call such ideas "wild conspiracy theories," and usually find local leaders to dispel such "myths". However, with the recent announcement by the Obama Administration that the CIA "will not seek to obtain or exploit DNA or other genetic material acquired through such programs," the White House has now admitted that these fears were not "myths" or conspiracy theories after all. A fake vaccination program was launched in Pakistan by Dr. Shakeel Afridi, for example, to capture Bin Laden, as part of CIA policy to collect DNA samples. So why did the White House come out and make such a public statement?