Anthrax Spin and How BMI Came to Develop Deadly Weaponized Anthrax

I just ran across this article which provides a history of bioweapons media spin and related government programs which could explain the FBI's inability to develop a strong case for the anthrax mailings:

http://www.questionsquestions.net/documents2/anthrax_spin.html



The article goes on to describe a puzzling Defense Department program (Project Bachus?) in Nevada, "whose only logical purpose was to buttress the FBI theory of lone individual perpetrators of chemical/biological events". This was disclosed by Judith Miller just seven days before the 9/11 attacks and two weeks before the anthrax mailing to NBC. Another stated objective was to see if a "homemade lab" would have an identifiable signature. The founder is a CFR member and consultant to the CIA.

This project was apparently a failure and was a far cry from making weaponized anthrax. ABC was also given permission to film the story, but they had never done anything with the film.

The article also describes the birth of the "Jefferson Project" where the CIA was tasked with developing a more deadly version of anthrax for testing vaccines, after Russia denied having ever developed such a strain. BMI was chosen to host the project which likely supplied the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and which then ultimately supplied Dr. Ivins at Fort Detrick. leveymg provides a detailed report on this here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3778301#3783726

Finally the article describes the CIA's Clear Vision project which focused on weapons systems that would deliver the germs. BMI was again chosen for this project, and it is speculated that this is related to "dirty bomb" development.

The article makes the point that the CIA is off limits to the FBI, so all they can do is find a lone suspect who matches their profile.

Judy seems to have had an inside line into several programs, including the "replica WMD" built by western intelligence agencies of the mythical Iraqi anthrax trailers and the replica Iraqi dirty bombs www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/27/153157/057/243/484860 , and the replica Russian miniature anthrax bomb. http://www.newhumanist.com/anthrax.html

Interesting that her NYT article and the simultaneous 9/4/01 AP report identified programs involving the CIA, DIA, and UK MOD in programs to build "replica" biowarfare devices that don't seem to have ever really existed except in US and British weapons test centers.

Another interesting coincidence is how many of the scientists carrying out these projects ended up in the morgue or in other extremis.

some form of alphabet soup. She's too something to be a reporter. Polished. (No offense, leveymg. :evilgrin:)

in DC, Naor Gilon. The two had a shared interest in an Israeli antiquities foundation. She was also mentioned as his friend in a revealing biographic piece I read soon after she became a celebrity, unfortunately, that was scrubbed from the web before I got a chance to make a copy.

She's a player in several dimensions.

They can be useful when they are "revisions" but even so, it's difficult to find the original text sometimes to compare to the new or to the vanished.

Naor Gilon

why do I get the impression that he is a double-agent and that the higher powers don't really care?

http://www.homelandsecurity.org/newjournal/Interviews/displayInterview2.asp?interview=2



Also, what he says about the Dugway Proving Ground smells like propaganda.

announced they were taking new bids to supply the national anthrax vaccine stockpile.

This whole story reeks.

stolen election. A small midwestern city is embroiled in 2 major bu$h era happenings. Weird? Also note that *'s grandfather grew up and lived here. Too many connections to BFEE

which includes other Dominionists potentially tied to election fraud:

http://www.archive.org/details/BobFitrakisFightBackKennethBlackwellandtheCouncilforNationalPolicy

"Blackwell is not the only Ohio Republican with ties to white supremacists, according to Bellant. He found ties between Senator George Voinovich and members of fascist groups formerly from Eastern and Southern Europe living in the Cleveland area.

In 1997, the Free Press disclosed that then-Republican Speaker Pro Tempore of the Ohio House, William G. Batchelder, was listed as a member of the little-known and highly secretive cabal, the CNP. Bellant told the Free Press in 1997, "the CNP is attempting to create a concentration of power to rival and eventually eclipse traditional centers of power in the U.S." Batchelder's wife Alice sits on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and was recently considered for the U.S. Supreme Court."



This webpage includes a long list of failures and coverups for Senator DeWine on the Senate Intelligence Committee:

http://sherrodbrown.com/press/releases/697/

At the time, it was just too much for me to take in. But, he could definitely add to this line of info.

what a tight web they have spun. :mad:

link:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/163/19552.html?1142018780

Keep 'em coming, AntiFascist.

:kick:

when I get a chance to scan the boards.

the public for political purposes

On September 7, 2002 Judith Miller reported false "leaked" information about the interception of metal tubes bound to Iraq for use in enrichment of nuclear weapons, published as a headline story in the New York Times. It was felt that this reporting added incentive to go to war with Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_(journalist)

"Shortly after Miller's article was published, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld all appeared on television and pointed to Miller's story as a partial basis for going to war. Subsequent analyses by various agencies all concluded that there was no way the tubes could have been used for uranium-enrichment centrifuges."

Miller has reacted angrily to criticism of her pre-war reporting. In a May 27, 2004 article in Salon, published the day after the Times mea culpa, James C. Moore quoted her: "You know what," she offered angrily. "I was proved fucking right. That's what happened. People who disagreed with me were saying, 'There she goes again.' But I was proved fucking right." This quotation was originally in relation to another Miller story, wherein she indicated that trailers found in Iraq had been proven to be mobile weapons labs. That too was later shown to be untrue. <14>

She also went to jail rather than disclose information about sources that could have aided the Plame investigation. "After having invoked First Amendment journalistic principles in going to jail, Miller was widely derided for saying that she could not remember who gave her the name "Valerie Plame" (presumably a key fact in the case) but that she was sure it didn't come from Libby.<5>"

She also published a story about an impending government raid on an Islamic charity, based on criminally provided information, which may have tipped off the charity and allowed them time to destroy evidence.

She has also reported extensively on the threat of biowarfare and has even written a book - "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" together with William Broad who is mentioned in the OP.

JULY 29
aide to Senator Jim Webb found dead <"Suicide"> - July 29
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/07/webb_aide_found_dead_in_southw.html

JULY 30
U.S. Air Force General Dead From Gunshot Wound <"Suicide"> - July 30
Michael “Buzz” Mosely, resigned in the wake of the Minot Nukes incident.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwfHVHeEJlguxBiYCFf2lLqY-H5QD9277C4O0

JULY 31
Bruce Ivins, the "Anthrax" patsy