Mark Thompson wanted an emergency support team sent to the consulate and was confounded when his superiors in Washington would not agree.

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In short order, the disclosure of this highly classified program, conducted by the FBI and the Energy Department's Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), prompted denunciations from organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

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Furthermore, the Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST), which the State Department's website calls "the United States Government's only interagency, on-call, short-notice team poised to respond to terrorist incidents worldwide" was not called into action.

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Ann Keen, the junior health minister, said the research chimed with findings from the National Diabetes Support Team which has published a report on improving emergency and inpatient care for people with diabetes.

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