Anthrax Killers Still On the Loose: No Case Against Bruce Ivins

Wasn't it Colin Powell who sat before the UN waving a small vile of anthrax in his hand saying this is what Saddam was engineering in his WMD arsenals? This was part of the strategy in advocating their claims to go to war.....after they blantly said several times before Saddam presented no threat to the world community.. The FBI.......short for Fools Believe Ignorance.

I am predicting that Deborah Rudacille, the author of this excellent piece of reporting will soon be reassigned to the City Desk reporting on the location of potholes in the streets of downtown Baltimore ... a worse fate may await her editor ...

Good find, Erik !

thanks, guys.

dj- yes, ironic and hypocritical that a vial of Anthrax was used to bolster the case for invading Iraq, when the false-flag anthrax attack on the US has obvious clues pointing to the Bush Administration; the targets; Bush critical media and Senators slowing the passage of the Patriot Act, plus White House staff put on Cipro on 9/11 and never disclosed why. They even tried to pin the 2001 Anthrax attack on Iraq at the time, but couldn't make it stick.

Emilio- right- i'm not going to bother checking, but i assume this means the Baltimore Chronicle is one of the few MSM that's not yet owned by the Big 5, and if they have a CIA spook on staff, he must've been asleep at the switch to let this story get thru.

I didn't check all the facts, but much of what was reported in the article wasn't news- they did have some statements I hadn't seen before.

http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/opinion/112308editorial.html

Self (inflicted) defense can up risk

By The Baltimore Examiner Newspaper
- 11/23/08

Two clear facts shine from the clouded mystery of anthrax attacks on America and our government’s tenuous claim seven years later of closing the case with the suicide of a suspect.

Fact No. 1: Government warnings about anthrax being a weapon of mass destruction were false. Somebody dispersed the most lethal strain our tax dollars can produce — weapons-grade or near enough — via the U.S. Postal Service, exposing tens of millions of people, yet managed to infect 22. Five died. But from anthrax vaccination, at least 21 died and thousands reported a wide range of illnesses.

Fact No. 2: If FBI accusations against their prime suspect in the 2001 attack are true, it means billions of dollars taxpayers invested on the premise of prevention actually increased the risk.

When senior biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins died from an overdose of Tylenol 3 after being identified as sole suspect, our central
government declared the crime solved.

However, co-workers at the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick say the actions attributed to Ivins over the time the government claims are scientifically impossible.

This is going to be another never-healing wound in America’s body of unsolved mysteries.

But mystery should not distract us from the truth. Our government’s response to bioweapons is raising the danger level from them.

Think it through, citizens. The very vaccination program intended to thwart anthrax apparently sickened and killed more people than an actual mass attack.

After the 2001 attack, our government hurled $41 billion at bioterror with no real coordination or study. High-level labs multiplied threefold. A dozen agencies exponentially increased the number of facilities and workers handling pathogens. Now we have more than 15,000 potential Bruce Ivins.

Meanwhile, our  leaders provided no adequate increase in oversight, coordination, training, security, surveillance, testing, background checks or psychological screening.

Statistically, something going horribly wrong now approaches sure thing. That is not just a threat to residents of Frederick, Bethesda and other communities. It is, as the spread of anthrax spores proved, a threat to the whole world.

We learned in 2001 the actual danger from anthrax was lower than vaccine.

But these biohazard labs grow a lot more dangerous pathogens than anthrax. The next one to get out could kill millions.

President Bush must immediately halt programs until we can impose coordinated oversight, then assess security and capacity needs.

We must not let self-defense become self-inflicted catastrophe.

Link to GAO reports
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-108T High-Containment Biosafety Laboratories
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-07-333R Issues Associated with Expansion

Read the vaccine series
http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/crime/Scientific_impossibility.html Scientific impossibility
http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/112008anthraxpart2.html Sickening results
http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/112008anthrax.html Costly program
http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/112008anthraxletter.html Pentagon responds