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Date: July 8, 2007 7:30:27 PM PDT
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Subject: Source of Anthrax in 2001 "Terrorist Attack" on Democrats
-- FT DETRICK
Were the Anthrax Attacks on Congress
the act of the U.S. Government?
By F. Vyan Walton
July 6, 2007
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
opedne_f__vyan__070706_were_the_anthrax_att.htm
According to a report from a government Insider currently posted on
AfterDowningStreet.org, the Anthrax attacks on Senators Daschle and
Leahy in 2001, just weeks after 9-11, may have been launched not by
foreign or even domestic terrorists, unless (like Rosie O'Donnel)
you count members of the U.S. Government as potentential members
such a group.
Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the
first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has
said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that
killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal
elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police
state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11
legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military
Commissions Act.
I admit I am wary of what might seem a bit of tin-foil
habberdashery, but then again - we just had a President commute the
sentence of someone who lied to protect the Vice President from
possible Treason charges. We've seen our racial discrimination at
the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. Just how much lower can the
Bush/Cheney Government go?
Based on what Dr. Boyle has to say it just might be that we haven't
even begun to completely plumb the true depths of BushCo.
"At the time I myself did not know precisely what was going on,
either with respect to September 11 or the anthrax attacks, but
then the New York Times revealed the technology behind the letter
to Senator Daschle. [The anthrax used was] a trillion spores per
gram, [refined with] special electro-static treatment. This is
superweapons-grade anthrax that even the United States government,
in its openly proclaimed programs, had never developed before. So
it was obvious to me that this was from a U.S. government lab.
There is nowhere else you could have gotten that."
At the time of the attacks the Senate was contempating the original
version of the Patriot Act, which at the time included a complete
stripping of Habeas Corpus. Senator Leahy was one of the leading
opponents of the bill.
Following the attacks, much of that opposition faded and the bill -
with some modifications - was passed. Leahy even voted for it.
Boyle who had worked for years on Bioweapons and had been
responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act
of 1989, which passed both Houses and was signed into law by George
Herbert Walker Bush.
But wait, the plot sickens...
After realizing that the type and quality of the Anthrax used
against Sen. Daschle indicated that it had to have been developed
by U.S. Scientists, Boyle contacted the FBI and spoke with Agent
Marion "Spike" Bowman.
Boyle and Bowman had met at a terrorism conference at the
University of Michigan Law School. Boyle told Bowman that the only
people who would have the capability to carry out the attacks were
individuals working on U.S. government anthrax programs with access
to a high-level biosafety lab. Boyle gave Bowman a full list of
names of scientists, contractors and labs conducting anthrax work
for the U.S. government and military.
Well, you'd expect that armed with this knowledge, trusty Agent
Bowman would be after his man/men immediately? Well, not so much.
Bowman then informed Boyle that the FBI was working with Fort
Detrick on the matter. Boyle expressed his view that Fort Detrick
could be the main problem.
Fort Detrick recieves it's cultures for bioweapon analysis and
development from Ames, Iowa - but not long after these events the
cultures at Ames were ordered destroyed by ... wait for it ... the
FBI.
The alleged destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames,
Iowa, from which the Fort Detrick lab got its pathogens, was
blatant destruction of evidence. It meant that there was no way of
finding out which strain was sent to whom to develop the larger
breed of anthrax used in the attacks. The trail of genetic evidence
would have led directly back to a secret government biowarfare
program.
"Clearly, for the FBI to have authorized this was obstruction of
justice, a federal crime," said Boyle. "That collection should have
been preserved and protected as evidence. That's the DNA, the
fingerprints right there. It later came out, of course, that this
was Ames strain anthrax that was behind the Daschle and Leahy
letters."
It's not like Agent Bowman hasn't dropped the ball before. It was
he along with FBI Supervisory Special Agent Michael Maltbi who
decided it wasn't even worth trying to file a FISA warrant the
contents of Zacarias Moussaoui's computer hardrive.
<>The Judiciary Committee has been investigating FISA problems at
the FBI, including holding closed hearings where Mr. Bowman and
others were questioned about the Moussaoui case.
<>Mr. Grassley said a 26-page electronic communication from the
Minneapolis agents contained information that "a reasonable person
would have concluded" was sufficient to obtain a FISA warrant.
He said the application should have gone forward to the Justice
Department and the FISA court.
Instead, he said, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Michael Maltbie
concluded there was not enough information and that Mr. Bowman
agreed, although he was aware Mr. Maltbie had "removed certain
information before making a presentation of questionable accuracy
and length to the national security law unit."
Mr. Grassley said if the application had gone forward and a warrant
issued, the agents would have found information in Moussaoui's
belongings linking him both to a major financier of the hijacking
plot and to an al Qaeda boss who met with at least two other
hijackers while under surveillance by intelligence officials.
After his stellar work on the Moussaoui case, Bowman was naturally
given a Presidential Rank of Meritorious Service award. I suppose a
fresh new Medal of Freedom wasn't available at the time.
It should also be noted that there are others with a different
opinion and view of the source of that Anthrax used in that fateful
2001 attack. From the WaPo Sept 2006
What was initially described as a near-military-grade biological
weapon was ultimately found to have had a more ordinary pedigree,
containing no additives and no signs of special processing to make
the anthrax bacteria more deadly, law enforcement officials
confirmed. In addition, the strain of anthrax used in the attacks
has turned out to be more common than was initially believed, the
officials said.
As a result, after a very public focus on government scientists as
the likely source of the attacks, the FBI is today casting a far
wider net, as investigators face the daunting prospect of an almost
endless list of possible suspects in scores of countries around the
globe. "There is no significant signature in the powder that points
to a domestic source,"
You wonder if any of these people have ever watched an episode of
CSI and know what DNA is? Whether cultures from the Ames lab were
or weren't a source for the Anthrax is now only a matter of
speculation and supposition since the originals have been
destroyed. Preserving them would have gone a long way to helping
establish that Ft. Detrick or any other U.S. lab as suspected by
Dr. Boyle clearly were not involved in the Attack.
So if it wasn't "weaponsized" could it still have come from an
Defense Lab or was it just run of the mill anthrax, the kind you
find at your local Walmart? (More from Wapo)
Whoever made the powder produced a deadly project of exceptional
purity and quality -- up to a trillion spores per gram -- but used
none of the tricks known to military bioweapons scientists to
increase the lethality of the product. Officials stressed that the
terrorist would have had to have considerable skills in
microbiology and access to equipment.
So who are the terrorist with "considerable skill in microbiology
and access to equipment" - are they hiding out in the caves of
Afghanistan or maybe they're somewhere North, South, East and
slightly West of Tikrit by now? The lack of "additives" may not
neccesarily mean that the Anthrax wasn't made at someplace like Ft
Detrick, it simply means that additives that would have given it a
more unqiue and distinctive signature weren't added (yet).
Particular when the point of the Attack clearly wasn't to maximize
leathality, it was to foment fear and help shift U.S. policy to a
more fascist stance.
<>But again, this is mere speculation - proof one way or the other
seems to be in short supply.
One may or may not believe Dr. Boyle, one may or may not feel that
his cause for alarm and claims that this smacks of a "deliberate
cover-up" are legitimate, I for one certainly have my doubts, but....
One thing is certain, in the wake of 5 Million Missing Emails, you
just have to wonder...
UPDATE: As pointed out by a DKOS commenter - this doesn't have to
be a "conspiracy" for Boyle to be largely correct about the
possible source of the Anthrax. All it takes is one nutball with
access to materials and the will to use them. Again from the WaPo.
"In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the whole
country who might be able to make this stuff, and I'm one of them,"
said Richard O. Spertzel, chief biological inspector for the U.N.
Special Commission from 1994 to 1998. "And even with a good lab and
staff to help run it, it might take me a year to come up with a
product as good."
Instead, suggested Spertzel and more than a dozen experts
interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks, investigators
might want to reexamine the possibility of state-sponsored
terrorism, or try to determine whether weaponized spores may have
been stolen by the attacker from an existing, but secret,
biodefense program or perhaps given to the attacker by an accomplice.
Whether this was the act of one lone nut, followed by a botched
investigation or something more sinister and deliberate - many
questions remain and deserved to be answered.
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