Congressman Rush Holt Urges Independent Anthrax Investigation
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) succeeded in including language in the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Bill that would require the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to examine the possibility of a foreign connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks. The amendment was added less than a week after the FBI arbitrarily closed its investigation. See Also… [...]
The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
Edward Epstein | WallStreetJournal.com The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public knew on July 29, 2008, with the death of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Md. The cause of death was an overdose of the [...]
A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack
Glen Greenwald | Salon.com Britain is currently engulfed by a probing, controversial investigation into how their Government came to support the invasion of Iraq, replete with evidence that much of what was said at the time by both British and American officials was knowingly false, particularly regarding the unequivocal intention of the Bush administration to attack Iraq for months when they [...]
13 doctors demand inquest into Dr David Kelly’s death
Glen Owen & Miles Goslett | DailyMail.co.uk The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide. Dr Kelly’s body was found six years ago this week in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, [...]
Kelly’s Book of Secrets
Express.co.uk He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion. He had several discussions with a publisher in Oxford and was seeking advice on how far he could go without breaking the law on secrets. Following his death, [...]
Army: 3 vials of virus samples missing from Maryland facility
Larry Shaughnessy | CNN.com Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland. Fort Detrick is the home of the Army’s top biological research facility. The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command agents have been visiting Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to investigate the disappearance of [...]
Anthrax spores don’t match dead researcher’s samples
John Byrne | RawStory.com Poisonous anthrax that killed five Americans in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks doesn’t match bacteria from a flask linked to Bruce Ivins, the researcher who committed suicide after being implicated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a scientist said. Spores used in the deadly mailings “share a [...]
The Scarlet A: Links between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11
www.opednews.com by Barbara Honegger The author is a Senior Military Affairs Journalist, and former White House Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President in the first Reagan Administration. Ms. Honegger is the author of the 9/11 expose “The Pentagon Attack Papers” http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf and October Surprise (Tudor, 1989), the first book to [...]
The FBI Admits It Has No Case Against Ivins
GeorgeWashingtonsBlog.com The FBI has admitted that it has no case against Ivins. As summarized in an article today in the Washington Post: The FBI has had a difficult time making its case to a skeptical public and scientific community. A hair sample snagged from a Princeton, N.J., mailbox linked to the attacks turned out not to match [...]
Hair Samples in Anthrax Case Don’t Match
Strands From Mailbox in Princeton Are Not From Ivins, Investigators Say Carrie Johnson | WashingtonPost.com Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J., but the strands did not match the lead suspect in the case, according to sources briefed on the probe. FBI agents [...]
Daschle Critical Of Anthrax Probe
AP | CBSNews.com Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government’s main suspect does not mean the case is over. Daschle said the FBI has not given him any new updates. He also raised questions about the quality of [...]
Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax
WashingtonPost.com Ivins Could Not Have Been Attacker, Some Say For nearly seven years, scientist Bruce E. Ivins and a small circle of fellow anthrax specialists at Fort Detrick’s Army medical lab lived in a curious limbo: They served as occasional consultants for the FBI in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, yet they [...]
Even experts at the U.S. bioweapons facility at Fort Detrick think that the anthrax which was used in the 2001 attacks came from their facility:
Posted at GeorgeWashington’sBlog Even experts at the U.S. bioweapons facility at Fort Detrick think that the anthrax which was used in the 2001 attacks came from their facility: “In an e-mail obtained by FOX News, scientists at Fort Detrick openly discussed how the anthrax powder they were asked to analyze after the attacks was nearly [...]
