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How in the world did one of former NSC staffer Ben Rhodes' favorite reporter obtain this "playbook"?
If "playbook" story is accurate (a big if given that Team Obama is behind it), then Team Obama failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook.

Bloomberg News and the LA Times both reported the Obama-Biden Admin failed to replenish the National Stockpile of N95 masks after H1N1 in 2009
Bloomberg News: After H1N1 in 2009 "triggered a nationwide shortage of masks and caused a 2- to 3-year backlog orders for the N95 variety, the stockpile distributed about three-quarters of its inventory and didn’t build back the supply" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
LA Times: "After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks ... be replenished by the stockpile, which is maintained by [HHS].

"That didn’t happen...
"...according to Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Assn.

"The stockpile drew down about 100 million masks during the 2009 epidemic, Johnson said.

"'Our association is unaware of any major effort to restore the stockpile to cover that drawdown"
Here's the LA Times story I'm quoting from latimes.com/politics/story…
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