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Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet



Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744



The Government Accountability Office says the science the FBI used to
investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks was flawed.

The GAO released a report Friday on its findings. The agency didn't take a
position on the FBI's conclusion that Army biodefense researcher Bruce
Ivins acted alone in making and sending the powdered spores that killed
five people and sickened 17 others.

The report adds fuel to the debate among experts, including many of Ivins'
co-workers at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, over whether Ivins
could have made and mailed the anthrax-filled envelopes.

The GAO said the FBI's research did not provide a full understanding of
the methods and conditions that give rise to genetic mutations used to
differentiate between samples of anthrax bacteria. The report calls this a
"key scientific gap."

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Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html


WASHINGTON — The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said
Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the
deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of
the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall
2001.

At a hearing in front of his committee, the Vermont Democrat told FBI
Director Robert Mueller that he thinks other people must have been
involved.



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> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744

> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html

Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding
SCOTT SHANE eptember 17, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18anthrax.html?_r=0
http://vimeo.com/5023627


WASHINGTON — Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee and a target of the anthrax letters of 2001, said Wednesday that
he did not believe the F.B.I.’s contention that an Army scientist
conducted the attacks alone.

At a hearing of his committee, Mr. Leahy told the F.B.I. director, Robert
S. Mueller III, that even if the bureau was right about the involvement of
the scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, who killed himself in July before ever
being charged, he thought there were accomplices.

“If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape
or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress
and the American people,” said Mr. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont.

“I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or
accessories after the fact,” he added. “I believe there are others who can
be charged with murder.”


///

"The anthrax powder used in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks is considered by many
experts to be the most sophisticated and refined ever seen."

http://www.anthraxwar.com/1/?p=203



Anthrax War CBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquqlX8wnT0

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> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:52:10 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>>
>>
>>
>> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
>> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
>> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
>> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
>> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>
> Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding
> SCOTT SHANE eptember 17, 2008
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18anthrax.html?_r=0
> http://vimeo.com/5023627
>
>
> WASHINGTON — Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary
> Committee and a target of the anthrax letters of 2001, said Wednesday
> that he did not believe the F.B.I.’s contention that an Army scientist
> conducted the attacks alone.

> “I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or
> accessories after the fact,” he added. “I believe there are others who
> can be charged with murder.”

> "The anthrax powder used in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks is considered by
> many experts to be the most sophisticated and refined ever seen."
> http://www.anthraxwar.com/1/?p=203
>
> Anthrax War CBC
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquqlX8wnT0

Dark Winter Script Leak


CAST:

President: The Hon. Sam Nunn
National Security Advisor: The Hon. David Gergen
Director of Central Intelligence: The Hon. R. James Woolsey
Secretary of Defense: The Hon. John White
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: General John Tilelli (USA, Ret.)
Secretary of Health & Human Services: The Hon. Margaret Hamburg
Secretary of State: The Hon. Frank Wisner
Attorney General: The Hon. George Terwilliger
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency: Mr. Jerome Hauer
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation: The Hon. William Sessions
Governor of Oklahoma: The Hon. Frank Keating
Press Secretary of Gov. Frank Keating (OK): Mr. Dan Mahoney
Correspondent, NBC News: Mr. Jim Miklaszewski
Pentagon Producer, CBS News: Ms. Mary Walsh
Reporter, British Broadcasting Corporation: Ms. Sian Edwards
Reporter, The New York Times: Ms. Judith Miller
Reporter, Freelance: Mr. Lester Reingold


http://www.upmchealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2001_dark-winter/Dark%20Winter%20Script.pdf

June 22-23, 2001

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> http://www.upmchealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2001_dark-winter/Dark%20Winter%20Script.pdf
>
> June 22-23, 2001

MESSAGE DELIVERED TO MEETING. PRINTED COPY GIVEN TO ALL 30 minutes prior
to conclusion of segment

The NY Times, Washington Post, and USA Today receive anonymous letters
demanding the immediate removal (one week) of all US forces from Saudi
Arabia and all war ships from the Persian Gulf. Failure to comply will
result in renewed attacks on US, which will include anthrax, plague and
small pox. Each letter also contained a genetic fingerprint of the
smallpox strain matching the fingerprint of the strain causing the current
epidemic.

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On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:22:57 -0500, thinbluemime2

> Each letter also contained a genetic fingerprint of the smallpox strain
> matching the fingerprint of the strain causing the current epidemic.

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/7/972.full

The first such exercise of its kind, Dark Winter was constructed to
examine the challenges that senior-level policy makers would face if
confronted with a bioterrorist attack that initiated outbreaks of highly
contagious disease.


Exercise Participants

The 12 participants in Dark Winter portrayed members of the National
Security Council (NSC). Each is an accomplished individual who serves or
has served in high-level government or military positions.


Exercise Planning Assumptions

In the Dark Winter scenario, 3000 people were infected with the smallpox
virus during 3 simultaneous attacks


Exercise Scenario

No solid leads as to who masterminded the attack have emerged. A prominent
Iraqi defector claims that Iraq is behind the biological attack. Although
the defector cannot offer proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the
intelligence community deems his information highly credible. Polls of US
citizens show overwhelming support for retribution when the attacker is
identified.

The scenario ends when it is announced that the New York Times, the
Washington Post, and USA Today have each received an anonymous letter
demanding the removal of all US forces from Saudi Arabia and all warships
from the Persian Gulf within 1 week.

The letters threaten that failure to comply with the demands will result
in new smallpox attacks on the US homeland as well as other attacks with
anthrax and plague. To prove the veracity of these claims and the
seriousness of their threats, each letter contains a genetic fingerprint
that matches the fingerprint of the smallpox strain causing the current
epidemic, demonstrating that the author of these letters has access to the
smallpox strain.








Dark Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Y8SxmPCVs

biosecuritycntr
Uploaded on Apr 16, 2012

The Dark Winter exercise portrayed a fictional scenario depicting a covert
smallpox attack on U.S. citizens. The scenario is set in 3 successive
National Security Council (NSC) meetings which take place over 2 weeks.
Former senior government officials played the roles of NSC members; media
representatives were among the observers and played journalists during the
mock press conferences. The exercise was held at Andrews Air Force Base,
Washington, DC

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On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:56:51 -0500, thinbluemime2

> Exercise Scenario
>
> No solid leads as to who masterminded the attack have emerged. A
> prominent Iraqi defector claims that Iraq is behind the biological
> attack. Although the defector cannot offer proof beyond a reasonable
> doubt, the intelligence community deems his information highly credible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Powell-anthrax-vial.jpg

Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations Security Council
on February 5, 2003, to argue in favor of military action. Citing numerous
anonymous Iraqi defectors, Powell asserted that "there can be no doubt
that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons."

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<thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:53:37 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:52:10 -0500, thinbluemime2
>> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
>>> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
>>> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>>
>>> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
>>> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>>
>>
>> Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding
>> SCOTT SHANE eptember 17, 2008
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18anthrax.html?_r=0
>> http://vimeo.com/5023627
>>

>> “I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or
>> accessories after the fact,” he added. “I believe there are others who
>> can be charged with murder.”
>
>> "The anthrax powder used in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks is considered by
>> many experts to be the most sophisticated and refined ever seen."
>> http://www.anthraxwar.com/1/?p=203
>>
>> Anthrax War CBC
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquqlX8wnT0


> Dark Winter Script Leak
>
> CAST:
>

> Reporter, The New York Times: Ms. Judith Miller

At the New York Times, Miller wrote on security issues, particularly about
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Many of these stories later turned
out to have been based upon faulty information.

Miller was the only major U.S. media reporter, and the New York Times the
only major U.S. media organization, to be victimized by a fake anthrax
letter in the fall of 2001. Miller had reported extensively on the subject
of biological threats and had co-authored, with Stephen Engelberg and
William Broad, a book on bio-terrorism, Germs: Biological Weapons and
America's Secret War which was published on October 2, 2001. Miller
co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version
of weaponized anthrax, "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits",
published in the New York Times on September 4, 2001, weeks before the
first anthrax mailings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

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On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:14:55 -0500, thinbluemime2

> Director of Central Intelligence: The Hon. R. James Woolsey

Woolsey is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and
was one of the signatories to the January 26, 1998 letter sent to
President Clinton that called for the removal of Saddam Hussein.

Section V of Rebuilding America's Defenses, entitled "Creating Tomorrow's
Dominant Force", includes the sentence: "Further, the process of
transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a
long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl
Harbor"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._James_Woolsey,_Jr.#Later_career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#.22New_Pearl_Harbor.22

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:53:37 -0500, thinbluemime2
<thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:52:10 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>>
>>
>>
>> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
>> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
>> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
>> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
>> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>
> Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding
> SCOTT SHANE eptember 17, 2008
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18anthrax.html?_r=0
> http://vimeo.com/5023627
>
>
> WASHINGTON — Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary
> Committee and a target of the anthrax letters of 2001, said Wednesday
> that he did not believe the F.B.I.’s contention that an Army scientist
> conducted the attacks alone.

> “I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or
> accessories after the fact,” he added. “I believe there are others who
> can be charged with murder.”

http://www.salon.com/2001/11/22/anthrax_17/
Nov 21, 2001 Anthony York

Why Daschle and Leahy?

It's the question no one in Washington or the media wants to publicly
examine:



Why were two high-profile Democrats targeted by the anthrax mail terrorist?
///
Allah’s advocates, it seemed, had taken a sudden dislike to Democratic
senators who violated the Vice-President’s deadlines.



http://www.globalresearch.ca/terror-and-the-patriot-act-of-2001-implemented-in-the-immediate-wake-of-911/5400910

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On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:26:50 -0500, thinbluemime2

Leading To War - The Complete Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_cciUzoLwo


How does a government lead its people to war? Watch the U.S. government's
blueprint for war unfold, as told by the architects themselves.

LEADING TO WAR links together historic news footage, without commentary,
from President Bush's "axis of evil" speech in January, 2002, through the
announcement on March 19, 2003 that the U.S. had invaded Iraq.

Gain powerful insights as you watch the determined march to war - in
interviews, speeches, and press conferences by President Bush and his
administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security
Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, as
well as by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_cciUzoLwo





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1215881/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_to_War

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<thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744

The Anthrax Letters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amerithrax-letter-a.jpg

09-11-01
THIS IS NEXT
TAKE PENACILIN NOW
DEATH TO AMERICA
DEATH TO ISRAEL
ALLAH IS GREAT





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anthraxnote2.jpg

09-11-01
YOU CAN NOT STOP US.
WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX.
YOU DIE NOW.
ARE YOU AFRAID?
DEATH TO AMERICA.
DEATH TO ISRAEL.
ALLAH IS GREAT.

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[RichA]

And none of it was due to the incredible pressure by politicians to find a source and nail someone?

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:04:53 -0500, RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And none of it was due to the incredible pressure by politicians to
> find a source and nail someone?

A week after the September 11, 2001 attacks in Manhattan, the envelopes
containing Anthrax began arriving. The letters threatened America and
Israel so everyone assumed the Anthrax attacks were linked to the World
Trade Tower attacks. After a month of investigating the Anthrax, the FBI
discovered the strain of Anthrax could be traced back to Fort Detrick MD,
a US Military facility.

Before the preliminary Anthrax investigation was completed, Congress under
pressure from the two attacks and the Bush Administration, passed the
Patriot Act before reading the legislation.

The following year after the Patriot Act vote, the Bush administration
alluded to a connection between Saddam Hussein's WMD programs (including
Anthrax) and the alleged attackers of September 11, 2001.

The FBI charged several biologists with the Anthrax attacks. None were
tried or convicted. In a recent statement, Patrick Leheah, a Senate member
who received an Anthrax letter in 2001, said he believes the perpetrators
of the Anthrax attack are still at large.

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> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:04:53 -0500, RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And none of it was due to the incredible pressure by politicians to
>> find a source and nail someone?
>
>
> A week after the September 11, 2001 attacks in Manhattan, the envelopes
> containing Anthrax began arriving. The letters threatened America and
> Israel so everyone assumed the Anthrax attacks were linked to the World
> Trade Tower attacks. After a month of investigating the Anthrax, the
> FBI discovered the strain of Anthrax could be traced back to Fort
> Detrick MD, a US Military facility.
>
> Before the preliminary Anthrax investigation was completed, Congress
> under pressure from the two attacks and the Bush Administration, passed
> the Patriot Act before reading the legislation.
>
> The following year after the Patriot Act vote, the Bush administration
> alluded to a connection between Saddam Hussein's WMD programs (including
> Anthrax) and the alleged attackers of September 11, 2001.
>
> The FBI charged several biologists with the Anthrax attacks. None were
> tried or convicted. In a recent statement,






> Patrick Leheah, a Senate member who received an Anthrax letter in 2001,
> said he believes the perpetrators of the Anthrax attack are still at
> large.

President Bush Signs Anti-Terrorism Bill (The USA PATRIOT Act)
Admin October 26, 2001
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/terrorism-july-dec01-bush_terrorismbill/?print


I want to assure postal workers that our government is testing more than
200 postal facilities along the entire Eastern corridor that may have been
impacted. And we will move quickly to treat and protect workers where
positive exposures are found.

But one thing is for certain: These terrorists must be pursued, they must
be defeated, and they must be brought to justice. And that is the purpose
of this legislation.

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On Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 1:25:25 AM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:14:55 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> >>> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> >>> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> >>> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
> >>
> >>> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> >>> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> >>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding
> >> SCOTT SHANE eptember 17, 2008
> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18anthrax.html?_r=0
> >> http://vimeo.com/5023627

> >> "The anthrax powder used in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks is considered by
> >> many experts to be the most sophisticated and refined ever seen."
> >> http://www.anthraxwar.com/1/?p=203

> > Dark Winter Script Leak
> >
> > CAST:





> > Reporter, The New York Times: Ms. Judith Miller


> At the New York Times, Miller wrote on security issues, particularly about
> Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Many of these stories later turned
> out to have been based upon faulty information.


> Miller was the only major U.S. media reporter, and the New York Times the
> only major U.S. media organization, to be victimized by a fake anthrax
> letter in the fall of 2001. Miller had reported extensively on the subject
> of biological threats and had co-authored, with Stephen Engelberg and
> William Broad, a book on bio-terrorism, Germs: Biological Weapons and
> America's Secret War which was published on October 2, 2001. Miller
> co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version
> of weaponized anthrax, "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits",
> published in the New York Times on September 4, 2001, weeks before the
> first anthrax mailings.

The Iraq War and Stubborn Myths
Officials didn't lie, and I wasn't fed a line, writes Judith Miller
By JUDITH MILLER April 3, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iraq-war-and-stubborn-myths-1428087215


By JUDITH MILLER
(Would I lie to You?)

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On Friday, December 19, 2014 at 8:52:21 PM UTC-5, thinbl...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:52:10 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> > Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
> >
> >
> >
> > Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> > Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> > http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
> > Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> > LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>
> Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding
> SCOTT SHANE eptember 17, 2008
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18anthrax.html?_r=0
> http://vimeo.com/5023627
>
>

> WASHINGTON -- Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary

> Committee and a target of the anthrax letters of 2001, said Wednesday that
> he did not believe the F.B.I.'s contention that an Army scientist
> conducted the attacks alone.
>
> At a hearing of his committee, Mr. Leahy told the F.B.I. director, Robert
> S. Mueller III, that even if the bureau was right about the involvement of
> the scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, who killed himself in July before ever
> being charged, he thought there were accomplices.
>
> "If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape
> or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress
> and the American people," said Mr. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont.
>
> "I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or
> accessories after the fact," he added. "I believe there are others who can
> be charged with murder."
>
>
> ///
>
> "The anthrax powder used in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks is considered by many
> experts to be the most sophisticated and refined ever seen."
>
> http://www.anthraxwar.com/1/?p=203
>
>
>
> Anthrax War CBC
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquqlX8wnT0
>

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

FBI's AMERITHRAX Case just unravelled. Ex-FBI agent who directed investigation suing FBI, turns whistleblower!!!

Here is the Complaint, filed on April 2, 2015 alleging gross mishandling of the case on many levels, and concealment of evidence exonerating Bruce Ivins:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1714250-former-fbi-special-agent-in-charge-richard.html

Excerpts:

5. This complaint further details how Defendants' derelict failure to perform their mandated legal duties to Plaintiff was driven by Defendants' blinding animus toward Plaintiff for Plaintiff's prior whistleblower reports of FBI and DOJ mismanagement of the FBI's investigation into the anthrax attacks of 2001 (code named "AMERITHRAX").

From pages 23 to 25:

50. In the fall of 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, a series of anthrax mailings occurred which killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. Four anthrax-laden envelopes were recovered which were addressed to two news media outlets in New York City (the New York Post and Tom Brokaw at NBC) and two senators in Washington D.C. (Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle). The anthrax letters addressed to New York were mailed on September 18, 2001, just seven days after the 9/11 attacks. The letters addressed to the senators were mailed 21 days later on October 9, 2001. A fifth mailing of anthrax is believed to have been directed to American Media, Inc. (AMI) in Boca Raton, Florida based upon the death of one AMI employee from anthrax poisoning and heavy spore contamination in the building.

51. Executive management at FBI Headquarters assigned responsibility for the anthrax investigation (code named "AMERITHRAX") to the Washington Field Office (WFO), dubbing it the single most important case in the FBI at that time.

52. In October 2002, in the wake of surging media criticism, White House impatience with a seeming lack of investigative progress by WFO, and a concerned Congress that was considering revoking the FBI's charter to investigate terrorism cases, Defendant FBI Director Mueller reassigned Plaintiff from the FBI's San Diego Field Office to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters and placed Plaintiff in charge of the AMERITHRAX case as an "Inspector."While leading the investigation for the next four years, Plaintiff's efforts to advance the case met with intransigence from WFO's executive management, apathy and error from the FBI Laboratory, politically motivated communication embargos from FBI Headquarters, and yet another preceding and equally erroneous legal opinion from Defendant Kelley - all of which greatly obstructed and impeded the investigation.

53. On July 6, 2006, Plaintiff provided a whistleblower report of mismanagement to the FBI's Deputy Director pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 2303. Reports of mismanagement conveyed in writing and orally included: (a) WFO's persistent understaffing of the AMERITHRAX investigation; (b) the threat of WFO's Agent in charge to retaliate if Plaintiff disclosed the understaffing to FBI Headquarters; (c) WFO's insistence on staffing the AMERITHRAX investigation principally with new Agents recently graduated from the FBI Academy resulting in an average investigative tenure of 18 months with 12 of 20 Agents assigned to the case having no prior investigative experience at all; (d) WFO's eviction of the AMERITHRAX Task Force from the WFO building in downtown Washington and its relegation to Tysons Corner, Virginia to free up space for Attorney General Ashcroft's new pornography squads; (e) FBI Director's Mueller's mandate to Plaintiff to "compartmentalize" the AMERITHRAX investigation by stove piping the flow of case information and walling off task force members from those aspects of the case not specifically assigned to them - a move intended to stem the tide of anonymous media leaks by government officials regarding details of the investigation. This sequestration edict decimated morale and proved unnecessary in light of subsequent civil litigation which established that the media leaks were attributable to the United States Attorney for the District of the District of Columbia and to a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI's National Press Office, not to investigators on the AMERITHRAX Task Force; (f) WFO's diversion and transfer of two Ph.D. Microbiologist Special Agents from their key roles in the investigation to fill billets for an 18 month Arabic language training program in Israel; (g) the FBI Laboratory's deliberate concealment from the Task Force of its discovery of human DNA on the anthrax-laden envelope addressed to Senator Leahy and the Lab's initial refusal to perform comparison testing; (h) the FBI Laboratory's refusal to provide timely and adequate scientific analyses and forensic examinations in support of the investigation; (i) Defendant Kelley's erroneous and subsequently quashed legal opinion that regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) precluded the Task Force's collection of evidence in overseas venues; (j) the FBI's fingering of Bruce Ivins as the anthrax mailer; and, (k) the FBI's subsequent efforts to railroad the prosecution of Ivins in the face of daunting exculpatory evidence. Following the announcement of its circumstantial case against Ivins, Defendants DOJ and FBI crafted an elaborate perception management campaign to bolster their assertion of Ivins' guilt. These efforts included press conferences and highly selective evidentiary presentations which were replete with material omissions. Plaintiff further objected to the FBI's ordering of Plaintiff not to speak with the staff of the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes or
investigative journalist David Willman, after both requested authorization to interview Plaintiff.

54. In April 2008, some of Plaintiff's foregoing whistleblower reports were profiled on the CBS television show 60 Minutes. This 60 Minutes segment was critical of FBI executive management's handling of the AMERITHRAX investigation, resulting in the agency's embarrassment and the introduction of legislative bills calling for the establishment of
congressional inquiries and special commissions to examine these issues - a level of scrutiny the FBI's Ivins attribution could not withstand.


55. After leaving the AMERITHRAX investigation in 2006, Plaintiff continued to publicly opine that the quantum of circumstantial evidence against Bruce Ivins was not adequate to satisfy the proof-beyond-a-reasonable doubt threshold required to secure a criminal conviction in federal court. Plaintiff continued to advocate that while Bruce Ivins may have been the anthrax mailer, there is a wealth of exculpatory evidence to the contrary which the FBI continues to conceal from Congress and the American people. The FBI vehemently opposes Plaintiff's position.

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 8:38 PM

[thinbl...@gmail.com]

On Friday, December 19, 2014 at 1:50:52 PM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:
> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
>
>
> The Government Accountability Office says the science the FBI used to
> investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks was flawed.
>
> The GAO released a report Friday on its findings. The agency didn't take a
> position on the FBI's conclusion that Army biodefense researcher Bruce
> Ivins acted alone in making and sending the powdered spores that killed
> five people and sickened 17 others.
>
> The report adds fuel to the debate among experts, including many of Ivins'
> co-workers at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, over whether Ivins
> could have made and mailed the anthrax-filled envelopes.
>
> The GAO said the FBI's research did not provide a full understanding of
> the methods and conditions that give rise to genetic mutations used to
> differentiate between samples of anthrax bacteria. The report calls this a
> "key scientific gap."
>
> ///
>
>
>
>
> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>

> WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said

> Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the
> deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of
> the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall
> 2001.
>
> At a hearing in front of his committee, the Vermont Democrat told FBI
> Director Robert Mueller that he thinks other people must have been
> involved.
>

Former F.B.I. Agent Sues, Claiming Retaliation Over Misgivings in Anthrax Case
By SCOTT SHANE APRIL 8, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/ex-fbi-agent-claims-retaliation-for-dissent-in-anthrax-inquiry.html





WASHINGTON -- When Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist, took a fatal overdose of Tylenol in 2008, the government declared that he had been responsible for the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, which killed five people and set off a nationwide panic, and closed the case.

Now, a former senior F.B.I. agent who ran the anthrax investigation for four years says that the bureau gathered "a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence" regarding Dr. Ivins that remains secret. The former agent, Richard L. Lambert, who spent 24 years at the F.B.I., says he believes it is possible that Dr. Ivins was the anthrax mailer, but he does not think prosecutors could have convicted him had he lived to face criminal charges.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tennessee last Thursday, Mr. Lambert accused the bureau of trying "to railroad the prosecution of Ivins" and, after his suicide, creating "an elaborate perception management campaign" to bolster its claim that he was guilty. Mr. Lambert's lawsuit accuses the bureau and the Justice Department of forcing his dismissal from a job as senior counterintelligence officer at the Energy Department's lab in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in retaliation for his dissent on the anthrax case.

The anthrax letters were mailed to United States senators and news organizations in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, causing a huge and costly disruption in the postal system and the federal government. Members of Congress and Supreme Court justices were forced from their offices while technicians in biohazard suits cleaned up the lethal anthrax powder. Decontamination costs nationwide exceeded $1 billion. At least 17 people were sickened, in addition to the five who died.

The bureau's investigation, one of the longest-running and most technically complex inquiries in its history, has long been seen as troubled. Investigators initially lacked the forensic skills to analyze bioterrorist attacks. For several years, agents focused on a former Army scientist and physician, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who was subsequently cleared and given a $4.6 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit. Reviews by the National Academy of Sciences and the Government Accountability Office faulted aspects of the F.B.I.'s scientific work on the case.

Mr. Lambert, who was himself criticized for pursuing Dr. Hatfill for so long, has now offered, in his lawsuit and in an interview, an insider's view of what hampered the investigation.

"This case was hailed at the time as the most important case in the history of the F.B.I.," Mr. Lambert said. "But it was difficult for me to get experienced investigators assigned to it."

He said that the effort was understaffed and plagued by turnover, and that 12 of 20 agents assigned to the case had no prior investigative experience. Senior bureau microbiologists were not made available, and two Ph.D. microbiologists who were put on the case were then removed for an 18-month Arabic language program in Israel. Fear of leaks led top officials to order the extreme compartmentalization of information, with investigators often unable to compare notes and share findings with colleagues, he said.

Mr. Lambert said he outlined the problems in a formal complaint in 2006 to the F.B.I.'s deputy director. Some of his accusations were later included in a report on the anthrax case by the CBS News program "60 Minutes," infuriating bureau leaders.

Although the lethal letters contained notes expressing jihadist views, investigators came to believe the mailer was an insider in the government's biodefense labs. They eventually matched the anthrax powder to a flask in Dr. Ivins's lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland and began intense scrutiny of his life and work.

They discovered electronic records that showed he had spent an unusual amount of time at night in his high-security lab in the periods before the two mailings of the anthrax letters. They found that he had a pattern of sending letters and packages from remote locations under assumed names. They uncovered emails in which he described serious mental problems.

The investigators documented Dr. Ivins's obsession with a national sorority that had an office near the Princeton, N.J., mailbox where the letters were mailed. They detected what they believed to be coded messages directed at colleagues, hidden in the notes in the letters.

As prosecutors prepared to charge him with the five murders in July 2008, Dr. Ivins, 62, took his own life at home in Frederick, Md. Days later, at a news conference, Jeffrey A. Taylor, then the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said the authorities believed "that based on the evidence we had collected, we could prove his guilt to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt."

But Mr. Lambert says the bureau also gathered a large amount of evidence pointing away from Dr. Ivins's guilt that was never shared with the public or the news media. Had the case come to trial, he said, "I absolutely do not think they could have proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." He declined to be specific, saying that most of the information was protected by the Privacy Act and was unlikely to become public unless Congress carried out its own inquiry.

After retiring from the F.B.I. in 2012, Mr. Lambert joined the Energy Department. But an F.B.I. ethics lawyer ruled that because Mr. Lambert had to work with F.B.I. agents in his new job, he was violating a conflict-of-interest law that forbade former federal employees from contacting previous colleagues for a year after they had left their government jobs.

That ruling led to his dismissal, Mr. Lambert said, and he has not been able to find work despite applying for more than 70 jobs. His lawsuit asserts that several other former F.B.I. agents were able to take identical intelligence jobs with the Energy Department and that he was singled out for mistreatment.


http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1714250-former-fbi-special-agent-in-charge-richard.html

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On Friday, December 19, 2014 at 1:50:52 PM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
>
>
> The Government Accountability Office says the science the FBI used to
> investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks was flawed.
>
> The GAO released a report Friday on its findings. The agency didn't take a
> position on the FBI's conclusion that Army biodefense researcher Bruce
> Ivins acted alone in making and sending the powdered spores that killed
> five people and sickened 17 others.
>
> The report adds fuel to the debate among experts, including many of Ivins'
> co-workers at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, over whether Ivins
> could have made and mailed the anthrax-filled envelopes.


>
>

> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>

> WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said

> Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the
> deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of
> the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall
> 2001.
>
> At a hearing in front of his committee, the Vermont Democrat told FBI
> Director Robert Mueller that he thinks other people must have been
> involved.

Live anthrax mistakenly sent to labs in 9 states
May 27, 2015 at 4:30pm
http://12160.info/forum/topics/live-anthrax-mistakenly-sent-to-labs-in-9-states
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-anthrax-mistakenly-sent-us-labs-n365511



Federal health officials say they are investigating the accidental shipment of live anthrax bacteria to labs in nine states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that it's investigating the accidental shipments.

No one's been sickened by the bacteria, which can cause potentially deadly illness although it's easily treated with antibiotics if caught soon enough.

"CDC is investigating the possible inadvertent transfer of a select agent from the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) to labs in nine states. At this time we do not suspect any risk to the general public," CDC said in a statement sent to NBC News.



///


The Senate must find a solution on phone data collection
By Editorial Board May 26
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-course-for-a-security-vacuum/2015/05/26/76cf4a4e-00b2-11e5-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html



ON THE contentious issue of bulk phone metadata collection by the National Security Agency, the big story is remarkably positive. Two years after Edward Snowden revealed the program and charged that it exceeds the agency's lawful authority under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, a bipartisan solution has emerged. The USA Freedom Act enjoys the support of President Obama and has passed the House with the votes of 338 Democrats and Republicans. Its central provision would allow the bulk collection of phone metadata to continue but assign storage of the records to the private sector, not the NSA, subject to court-ordered searches in specific cases.

This doesn't go far enough for opponents of any bulk collection, such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). But the tepid response from the public and his Senate colleagues to his multi-hour verbal assault on the compromise shows that Mr. Paul speaks for only a minority, and a small one at that.

Still, the compromise goes too far for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and others who think the NSA program should continue as-is. Mr. McConnell has been pushing to reauthorize Section 215 of the Patriot Act unchanged, on the grounds that it remains good authority for the NSA program -- the alteration of which he still sees as inconsistent with effective anti-terror operations.

Which brings us to the not-so-positive part of the story. Mr. McConnell persisted in his view even though more than 50 senators of both parties support the USA Freedom Act -- and despite doubts about his interpretation of Section 215, which has been endorsed only by one secret judicial tribunal, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Indeed, two weeks ago, a three-judge federal appeals court in New York unanimously ruled that the NSA program is not a lawful application of Section 215. With both Mr. Paul and Mr. McConnell resisting the USA Freedom Act, no bill -- not even a short-term extension of the current program -- passed, and the Senate went on vacation until May 31. Alas, at midnight of that day, Section 215 expires.

The least circuitous, and most advantageous, course -- for national security and civil liberties -- would have been a Senate vote to pass the House version of the USA Freedom Act without further ado. Instead, Congress is on course to create a vacuum of authority, in which the NSA would have no clear power to conduct any metadata collection, possibly indefinitely.

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On Friday, December 19, 2014 at 1:50:52 PM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
>
>
> The Government Accountability Office says the science the FBI used to
> investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks was flawed.
>
> The GAO released a report Friday on its findings. The agency didn't take a
> position on the FBI's conclusion that Army biodefense researcher Bruce
> Ivins acted alone in making and sending the powdered spores that killed
> five people and sickened 17 others.
>
> The report adds fuel to the debate among experts, including many of Ivins'
> co-workers at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, over whether Ivins
> could have made and mailed the anthrax-filled envelopes.
>
> The GAO said the FBI's research did not provide a full understanding of
> the methods and conditions that give rise to genetic mutations used to
> differentiate between samples of anthrax bacteria. The report calls this a
> "key scientific gap."
>
> ///
>
>
>
>
> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>

> WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said

> Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the
> deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of
> the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall
> 2001.
>
> At a hearing in front of his committee, the Vermont Democrat told FBI
> Director Robert Mueller that he thinks other people must have been
> involved.

incredible prescience in the days following 9/11: Don Kagan and Richard Perle predict 2001 anthrax mailings

https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey/status/637016576860884992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_JPeI2WFs

[Ed Stasiak]

> thinbl...@gmail.com

>
> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet

I didn't know you were a metal fan?

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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:25:33 PM UTC-5, thinbl...@gmail.com wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:15:08 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:04:53 -0500, RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:



> President Bush Signs Anti-Terrorism Bill (The USA PATRIOT Act)
> Admin October 26, 2001
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/terrorism-july-dec01-bush_terrorismbill/?print
>
>
> I want to assure postal workers that our government is testing more than
> 200 postal facilities along the entire Eastern corridor that may have been
> impacted. And we will move quickly to treat and protect workers where
> positive exposures are found.
>
> But one thing is for certain: These terrorists must be pursued, they must
> be defeated, and they must be brought to justice. And that is the purpose
> of this legislation.

Latest military lab concerns involve plague bacteria, deadly viruses
Tom Vanden Brook and Alison Young, September 10, 2015
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/10/bioterrorism-military-labs-specimens-mistakes-plague-encephalitis/71888694/


WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's most secure laboratories may have mislabeled, improperly stored and shipped samples of potentially infectious plague bacteria, which can cause several deadly forms of disease, USA TODAY has learned.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flagged the practices after inspections last month at an Army lab in Maryland, one of the Pentagon's most secure labs. That helped prompt an emergency ban on research on all bioterror pathogens at nine laboratories run by the Pentagon, which was already reeling from revelations that another Army lab in Utah had mishandled anthrax samples for 10 years.

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On Friday, December 19, 2014 at 1:50:52 PM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744

> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>

> WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said

> Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the
> deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of
> the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall
> 2001.
>
> At a hearing in front of his committee, the Vermont Democrat told FBI
> Director Robert Mueller that he thinks other people must have been
> involved.

Today is the anniversary of the first day of the 2001 anthrax attacks
Sep 18th, 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVItYWX-30c

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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:25:33 PM UTC-5, thinbl...@gmail.com wrote:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.tv/k041AeLqaHc/r2QPu5vERbAJ

> On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:15:08 -0500, thinbluemime2
> <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:04:53 -0500, RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> And none of it was due to the incredible pressure by politicians to
> >> find a source and nail someone?
> >
> >
> > A week after the September 11, 2001 attacks in Manhattan, the envelopes
> > containing Anthrax began arriving. The letters threatened America and
> > Israel so everyone assumed the Anthrax attacks were linked to the World
> > Trade Tower attacks. After a month of investigating the Anthrax, the
> > FBI discovered the strain of Anthrax could be traced back to Fort
> > Detrick MD, a US Military facility.
> >
> > Before the preliminary Anthrax investigation was completed, Congress
> > under pressure from the two attacks and the Bush Administration, passed
> > the Patriot Act before reading the legislation.
> >
> > The following year after the Patriot Act vote, the Bush administration
> > alluded to a connection between Saddam Hussein's WMD programs (including
> > Anthrax) and the alleged attackers of September 11, 2001.
> >
> > The FBI charged several biologists with the Anthrax attacks. None were
> > tried or convicted. In a recent statement,

> President Bush Signs Anti-Terrorism Bill (The USA PATRIOT Act)
> Admin October 26, 2001
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/terrorism-july-dec01-bush_terrorismbill/?print
>
>
> I want to assure postal workers that our government is testing more than
> 200 postal facilities along the entire Eastern corridor that may have been
> impacted. And we will move quickly to treat and protect workers where
> positive exposures are found.

FedEx: "When it absolutely, positively has to get there overnight"

> But one thing is for certain: These terrorists must be pursued, they must
> be defeated, and they must be brought to justice. And that is the purpose
> of this legislation.

Army Probe of Anthrax Scandal Raises More Red Flags
Jan 13, 2016 | by Richard Sisk
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/01/13/army-probe-of-anthrax-scandal-raises-more-red-flags.html



The Army was wrapping up an investigation into the anthrax scandal focusing on the Dugway Proving Grounds site in Utah even as new questions emerged on the extent of live shipments of the deadly toxin nationwide and around the world.
Pentagon officials said that conclusions of the Article 15-6 fact-finding investigation under Army regulations could be released soon, possibly later this week.

The results could lead to disciplinary action against those responsible for the mistaken shipments, many by Federal Express, of live anthrax spores to 184 labs and contractors in all 50 states and at least nine foreign countries, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico. The number of shipments of live toxins totaled 575, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

"It's just unimaginable" that Dugway and DOD for more than 10 years was sending the "seed stock for a biological weapon to hundreds of entities" around the nation and the world without adequate safeguards, said Dr. Richard Ebright, head of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University.



-------------

Immediately after the passing of the Patriot Act the anthrax story, less resilient than the 9/11 fiction, went into free fall collapse. It became clear that, despite the repeated attempts in October to blame the attacks on al-Qaeda and Iraq, the spores had been prepared in a U.S. laboratory serving the military and intelligence communities.

As to who, precisely, the anthrax perpetrators were, the debate continues.

We would do well to ask who wanted Afghanistan and Iraq in the crosshairs and worked very hard throughout October of 2001 to falsely blame al-Qaeda and Iraq for the anthrax attacks.

In my view, the answers to these questions are quite clear. Although the perpetrators had a wide circle of friends and collaborators, this circle included the highest members of the executive branch of government.



Terror and the Patriot Act of 2001, Implemented in the Immediate Wake of 9/11
By Graeme MacQueen September 10, 2014
http://www.globalresearch.ca/terror-and-the-patriot-act-of-2001-implemented-in-the-immediate-wake-of-911/5400910

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On Friday, December 19, 2014 at 1:50:52 PM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:

> Anthrax - A Skeleton in the Closet
>
>
>
> Report: FBI's Anthrax Investigation Was Flawed
> Dec 19, 2014 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-fbis-anthrax-investigation-flawed-27718744
>
>
>
> The Government Accountability Office says the science the FBI used to
> investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks was flawed.

> Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone
> LARA JAKES JORDAN 10/19/2008 <------
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/leahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html
>
>

> WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said

> Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the
> deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of
> the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall
> 2001.
>
> At a hearing in front of his committee, the Vermont Democrat told FBI
> Director Robert Mueller that he thinks other people must have been
> involved.

A Very Heavy Agenda Part 1: A Catalyzing Event (2015)
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/a-very-heavy-agenda-2015/


Thanks to the filmmaker, A VERY HEAVY AGENDA PART 1 can be watched for free for 1 week: Feb 1st - 7, 2016. If you want to support the film, you can share the film with your friends or buy a digital download of the film. Part 2 is out now and can be watched here for $4.

"A Very Heavy Agenda is a behind-the-scenes look at the neocon thinkers that fuel America's endless wars. The film is a chillingly honest account of how the neocons behind both Bush and Obama's foreign policy have shaped the 'new American century' over the last 15 years, told almost entirely in their own words via rarely seen TV footage. We'd highly recommend it." - Films For Action


Part 1: A Catalyzing Event 10.15.15

Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld were ubiquitous in the news media as they took every opportunity to market an aggressive preemptive war policy to America. But from where did their ideas originate? A tightly knit and eminently well placed group of neoconservative thought leaders, chief among them Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan.

Part 1 begins in the panicked weeks after 9/11, as Kagan et al. seized upon the hysteria surrounding the anthrax letter attacks to further shape America's perception of reality, planting the seeds for endless future military engagements. George W. Bush may have been understandably perceived as an idiot, but watching these wonks and academics drive the ideological engine for his administration belies a much more sophisticated strategy.



Watch Part 2: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Neocons (2016) ($4)

Producted/Edited/Directed by: Robbie Martin
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Bill Gates: Bioterrorism could kill more than nuclear war — but no one is ready to deal with it
By Avi Selk February 18
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/18/bill-gates-bioterrorism-could-kill-more-than-nuclear-war-but-no-one-is-ready-to-deal-with-it/?utm_term=.6349d406d7de



A genetically engineered virus is easier to make and could kill more people than nuclear weapons — and yet no country on Earth is ready for the threat, Bill Gates warned world leaders Saturday.

No one on his panel at the Munich Security Conference argued with him.

“The next epidemic has a good chance of originating on a computer screen,” said Gates, who made a fortune at Microsoft, then spent much of it fighting disease through his global foundation.

Whether “by the work of nature or the hands of a terrorist,” Gates said, an outbreak could kill tens of millions in the near future unless governments begin “to prepare for these epidemics the same way we prepare for war.”

His co-panelists shared some of the same fears.

“Disease and violence are killing fewer people than ever before, but it's spreading more quickly,” said Erna Solberg, the prime minister of Norway. “We have forgotten how catastrophic those epidemics have been.”

She recalled the Black Death, which she said killed more than half her country's population and created a 200-year recession in Europe.

“It's not if, but when these events are going to occur again,” said Peter Salama, executive director of the World Health Organization. “We need to ramp up our preparedness.”

Gates, who founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife in 2000, has been worrying about the world's ability to stop a deadly pandemic since Ebola killed thousands two years ago, while governments and militaries struggled to stop it from spreading through West Africa.

“NATO countries participate in joint exercises in which they work out logistics such as how fuel and food will be provided, what language they will speak, and what radio frequencies will be used,” Gates wrote in 2015 in the New England Journal of Medicine. “Few, if any, such measures are in place for response to an epidemic.”

He took the same message to Reddit a year later, when a commenter asked which technologies the world was better off without.

'"I am concerned about biological tools that could be used by a bioterrorist,” Gates wrote. “However the same tools can be used for good things as well.”

Before his panel on Saturday, Gates told the Telegraph: “It would be relatively easy to engineer a new flu strain” by combining a version that spreads quickly with one that kills quickly. Unlike a nuclear war, such a disease would not stop killing once released.

At Munich, Gates ran down all the way that the world's great powers were unprepared: governments out of touch with the companies that make vaccines, international health departments out of touch with each others, and militaries that may not have considered responding to a biological threat.

“Who's this alternate group that's going to deal with the panic?” Gates said. “Who's got the planes and the budget? Maybe the fire department?”

While some others on the panel — “Small Bugs. Big Bombs” — focused on the threat of natural diseases, Gates called for “germ games” simulations,

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US military agency invests $100m in genetic extinction technologies
Arthur Neslen Monday 4 December 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/04/us-military-agency-invests-100m-in-genetic-extinction-technologies



A US military agency is investing $100m in genetic extinction technologies that could wipe out malarial mosquitoes, invasive rodents or other species, emails released under freedom of information rules show.

The documents suggest that the US’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research and will raise tensions ahead of a UN expert committee meeting in Montreal beginning on Tuesday.

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is debating whether to impose a moratorium on the gene research next year and several southern countries fear a possible military application.

UN diplomats confirmed that the new email release would worsen the “bad name” of gene drives in some circles. “Many countries [will] have concerns when this technology comes from Darpa, a US military science agency,” one said.

The use of genetic extinction technologies in bioweapons is the stuff of nightmares, but known research is focused entirely on pest control and eradication.

Cutting-edge gene editing tools such as Crispr-Cas9 work by using a synthetic ribonucleic acid (RNA) to cut into DNA strands and then insert, alter or remove targeted traits. These might, for example, distort the sex-ratio of mosquitoes to effectively wipe out malarial populations.

Some UN experts, though, worry about unintended consequences. One told the Guardian: “You may be able to remove viruses or the entire mosquito population, but that may also have downstream ecological effects on species that depend on them.”

“My main worry,” he added, “is that we do something irreversible to the environment, despite our good intentions, before we fully appreciate the way that this technology will work.”

Jim Thomas, a co-director of the ETC group which obtained the emails, said the US military influence they revealed would strengthen the case for a ban.

“The dual use nature of altering and eradicating entire populations is as much a threat to peace and food security as it is a threat to ecosystems,” he said. “Militarisation of gene drive funding may even contravene the Enmod convention against hostile uses of environmental modification technologies.”

Todd Kuiken, who has worked with the GBIRd programme, which receives $6.4m from Darpa, said that the US military’s centrality to gene tech funding meant that “researchers who depend on grants for their research may reorient their projects to fit the narrow aims of these military agencies”.

Between 2008 and 2014, the US government spent about $820m on synthetic biology. Since 2012, most of this has come from Darpa and other military agencies, Kuiken says.

In an email reporting a US military-organised conference in June, a US government biologist noted that Darpa’s biotechnology program manager Renee Wegrzynhad said “the safe genes projects account [was] for $65m, but then mentioned with all other support in the room, it was $100m”.

A Darpa spokesman said that the figure was “a liberal, notional estimate” that included researchers at the meeting funded by Darpa under related efforts.

“Darpa is not and should not be the only funder of gene-editing research but it is critical for the Department of Defense to defend its personnel and preserve military readiness,” he said.

Darpa believes that a steep fall in the costs of gene-editing toolkits has created a greater opportunity for hostile or rogue actors to experiment with the technology.

“This convergence of low cost and high availability means that applications for gene editing – both positive and negative – could arise from people or states operating outside of the traditional scientific community and international norms,” the official said. “It is incumbent on Darpa to perform this research and develop technologies that can protect against accidental and intentional misuse.”

Gene-drive research has been pioneered by an Imperial College London professor, Andrea Crisanti, who confirmed he has been hired by Darpa on a $2.5m contract to identify and disable such drives.

Fears that the research could be channeled towards bioweapons were “all fantasy”, he said. “There is no way this technology could be used for any military purpose. The general interest is in developing systems to contain the undesired effects of gene drives. We have never been asked to consider any application not for the good of eliminating plagues.”

Interest in the technology among US army bureaus has shot up since a secret report by the elite Jason group of military scientists last year “received considerable attention among various agencies of the US government”, according to an email by Gerald Joyce, who co-chaired a Jason study group in June.

A second Jason report was commissioned in 2017 assessing “potential threats this technology might pose in the hands of an adversary, technical obstacles that must be overcome to develop gene drive technology and employ it ‘in the wild’,” Joyce wrote.

The paper would not be publicly disclosed but “widely circulated within the US intelligence and broader national security community”, his email said.


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CDC employee Timothy Cunningham went missing more than a week ago
by PHIL MCCAUSLAND FEB 23 2018
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cdc-employee-timothy-cunningham-went-missing-more-week-ago-n850721




A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee was last seen 11 days ago, when he left work early after complaining that he felt unwell, Atlanta police said Friday.

Timothy Cunningham, 35, works as a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service and has responded to the Ebola virus and the Zika virus outbreaks, the CDC said. He holds two degrees from Harvard.


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The CDC researcher who mysteriously vanished in February has been found dead
By Lindsey Bever and Alex Horton April 5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/04/05/timothy-cunningham-the-cdc-researcher-who-mysteriously-vanished-in-february-has-been-found-dead/


A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher has been found dead, seven weeks after he left the agency's headquarters in Atlanta and mysteriously vanished without a trace.

Officials said a body was recovered Tuesday from the bank of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta and that they have positively identified the deceased person as 35-year-old Timothy Cunningham.

Authorities said that there was no indication that there had been foul play, however, the circumstances surrounding Cunningham's death are still largely a mystery.

Authorities said during a news conference Thursday that it appears Cunningham drowned, but they have not yet determined whether his drowning was accidental or intentional.

O'Connor, commander of the police department's major crimes division, told reporters that during the course of the investigation, detectives interviewed family members, friends and colleagues and looked at many other factors — none of which showed any indication that there had been foul play. O'Connor said that although authorities are still awaiting toxicology results and for the medical examiner's report to be finalized, investigators believe that Cunningham drowned.

However, O'Connor said that the case is still under investigation.

“Things are fluid,” he told the reporters,