The Feds maintain a database which includes every prescription for antidepressant medication I’ve ever had filled (or yours too, for that matter)? Well, that appears to be the only inference I can reasonably draw after coming across this report by ABC regarding the Virginia Tech Killer. Read this paragraph from page 2 of ABC’s story on the killer, and tell me I’m just being paranoid:
Some news accounts have suggested that Cho had a history of antidepressant use, but senior federal officials tell ABC News that they can find no record of such medication in the government’s files. This does not completely rule out prescription drug use, including samples from a physician, drugs obtained through illegal Internet sources, or a gap in the federal database, but the sources say theirs is a reasonably complete search.
Nice to learn that the someone in the federal government with access to this database could leak information regarding the prescription medications of any US resident, or threaten to do so, in order to discredit or silence its critics. Not that Rove Bush would ever think of doing such a thing.
Perish the thought.