F.B.I. Asks Panel to Delay Report on Anthrax Inquiry
December 9, 2010
F.B.I. Asks Panel to Delay Report on Anthrax Inquiry
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has requested a last-minute delay in the release of a report on the bureau’s anthrax investigation by the National Academy of Sciences, prompting a congressman to say that the bureau “may be seeking to try to steer or otherwise pressure” the academy’s scientific panel “to reach a conclusion desired by the bureau.”
Representative Rush D. Holt, a Democrat of New Jersey and a physicist who has often been critical of the investigation, made the remarks in a letter Thursday to the F.B.I.’s director, Robert S. Mueller III, saying that he found the bureau’s request for a delay “disturbing.” The F.B.I. has told the committee that it wants to turn over an additional 500 pages of investigative documents not provided previously despite the committee’s request for all relevant material when it began the review in April 2009.
“If these new documents were relevant to the N.A.S.’s review why were they previously undisclosed and withheld?” Mr. Holt wrote. The anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in 2001 were sent from a mailbox in Princeton in his district.
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Muddy the waters
The FBI must have heard that the report is quite damning. They are pulling this tactic to muddy the waters.
GAO investigation
Last 3 paragraphs:
"E. William Colglazier, the academy’s executive officer, said the F.B.I.’s request was a surprise and came after the bureau saw the panel’s peer-reviewed final report, which was scheduled for release in November. He said that the committee’s 15 members, top scientists who serve as volunteers, were “exhausted,” but that the panel had agreed to extend the study and consider revising the report in return for an additional fee, probably about $50,000, beyond the $879,550 the F.B.I. has already paid for the study.
"Dr. Colglazier declined to say if the report was critical of the F.B.I.’s work but said it was “very direct.” The report sticks to science and does not offer an opinion on whether Dr. Ivins carried out the anthrax attacks, he said.
"In September, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, agreed to conduct its own review of the F.B.I.’s anthrax investigation, with a broader approach that also covers security measures at biolabs."
In 2005 the GAO released a report which documented major flaws in the security and reliability of the electronic voting machines which had been used en masse in the 2004 election- there was essentially no coverage of the report in the MSM.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf
Rush Holt, while being one of the few voices in Congress at all critical of the FBI's Anthrax frame up, has been a consistent advocate for unreliable and unaccountable electronic voting machines:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7273
Feb 2011
loose nuke Quoted....."E. William Colglazier, the academy’s executive officer, said the F.B.I.’s request was a surprise and came
after the bureau saw the panel’s peer-reviewed final report, which was scheduled for release in November"
Here is E. William Colglazier's statement .....
"Date: Dec. 9, 2010
Statement by E. William Colglazier, Executive Officer, National Academy of Sciences, and Chief Operating Officer, National
Research Council, Regarding Status of Review of the Scientific Approaches Used by the FBI During Its Investigation of the 2001"
"Anthrax Mailings
On Sept. 15, 2008, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) received a letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation requesting
that NAS conduct an independent review of the scientific approaches used by the FBI in its investigation of the 2001 anthrax
mailings. In response, the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of NAS and the National Academy of
Engineering, convened the Committee on the Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001"
"Bacillus anthracis Mailings to carry out this task under the terms of an April 24, 2009 contract. The committee’s project scope, as
agreed to by the National Research Council and FBI, was limited to an assessment of the scientific approaches, methodologies,
and analytical techniques used by the FBI in its investigation."
"The committee completed its assessment earlier this fall after satisfying the rigorous report review process of the National
Research Council, and a report was delivered to the FBI on Oct. 27 for a security review pursuant to the contract. Since that
time, the FBI has informed us it has additional materials relevant to the committee’s charge, materials that had not been provided
previously to the committee. On Dec. 3, the FBI delivered a summary of additional materials and certain documents for the
committee’s consideration, and in an accompanying letter asked for the opportunity for an additional presentation to the
committee by forensic experts, investigators, and federal prosecutors who worked on the investigation. We have determined that
some of this material is the type of information previously requested by the committee during the course of its review and that
some of this information is relevant to the committee’s report. To consider this information, the committee will reconvene for one
last meeting. We have requested that any additional information the FBI wishes to turn over to the committee be provided by
Dec. 15. The committee expects to complete its work by February 2011, with the goal of producing the most thorough and
accurate analysis possible."
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=1292010b
"FBI has informed us it has additional materials relevant to the committee’s charge, materials that had not been provided
previously to the committee."
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=1292010b
Obviously if the FBI liked the report it would have been accepted, there would be no need to give more information, the question
is was the anthrax weaponized? If it was Ivins as a nut acting alone is proven false. This guy couldn't have weaponized the
anthrax by himself.
"On Dec. 3, the FBI delivered a summary of additional materials and certain documents for the
committee’s consideration, and in an accompanying letter asked for the opportunity for an additional presentation to the
committee by forensic experts, investigators, and federal prosecutors who worked on the investigation."
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=1292010b
In other words...."give us another shot--you have to say it was NOT weaponized"
Curious....
This part always made me suspicious..
"The F.B.I. had already paid another former Army scientist, Steven J. Hatfill, a settlement worth $4.6 million to drop a lawsuit saying the bureau had falsely accused him of being the anthrax mailer."
Under what precedent do police departments and agencies get to make payoffs because of the threat of a lawsuit (which was or wasn't even filed, I'm not sure) from a suspect in an investigation. Mr Hatfill was never formally charged correct? He was only a person of interest. They must of had some evidence that made him that. I mean, did the Ramsey's get millions of dollars for being persons of interest in the Jon Benet murder but never charged? O.J. Simpson didn't get millions for being "wrongfully charged" since the jury acquitted him. So it begs the question, did we see a payoff happen right under our noses? What other reasons would the FBI rely on such a poor circumstantial case against Dr Ivins? The kicker is Dr. Ivins apparent "suicide". Here was a man, supposedly in his darkest hour, with access to terribly deadly infectious disease matter, chose Tylenol of all things to kill himself with? Hanging, gunshot, arsenic (found in common rat poison), and so on would be much more certain in the efficacy of one's own demise.
Another question I have is how did the National Academy of Sciences begin such an exhaustive investigation? What prompted it to undertake this investigation? Would we be able to use the same method that got this investigation started to get the NAS to investigate the WTC 7 final report? Twin Towers final report? It seems so typical of the inner workings of this gov't to spend nearly $900,000 to break down the failings of an investigation that killed 5 people and injured 17 others and not a penny on the one that killed 3,000.
Just my two cents since that's all I can afford. Thanks for listening. Sorry if my speculation got a bit wild.
peace everyone.
dtg
Statements of Dr. Heine:
See: Colleague Disputes Case Against Anthrax Suspect
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23anthrax.html
“WASHINGTON — A former Army microbiologist who worked for years with Bruce E. Ivins, whom the F.B.I. has blamed for the anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in 2001, told a National Academy of Sciences panel on Thursday that he believed it was impossible that the deadly spores had been produced undetected in Dr. Ivins’s laboratory, as the F.B.I. asserts”
“Dr. Heine told the 16-member panel, which is reviewing the F.B.I.’s scientific work on the investigation, that producing the quantity of spores in the letters would have taken at least a year of intensive work using the equipment at the army lab. Such an effort would not have escaped colleagues’ notice, he added later, and lab technicians who worked closely with Dr. Ivins have told him they saw no such work”
“He told the panel that biological containment measures where Dr. Ivins worked were inadequate to prevent the spores from floating out of the laboratory into animal cages and offices. “You’d have had dead animals or dead people,” he said.”
Can the FBI prove that statements of Dr. Heine are wrong ?
I briefly talked to Congressman Holt
about this & he was doubtfull of the previous findings of the FBI, based on Scientific Evidence.
I asked him if he spoke directly w/ lower level FBI investigators, who worked on the case & might be more fact based & less political.. He said no he didn't & that was a good idea.. but I'd be suprised if he followed thru on it.
Rep Holt Confronts FBI?
"Representative Rush Holt said Thursday he found it "disturbing" that the FBI had decided at the last minute to "dump" new documents on the panel at the National Academy of Sciences.
"My understanding is that this document dump, taking place after the FBI's review of the NAS draft report, is intended to contest and challenge the independent NAS panel's draft findings," Holt said in a letter to the FBI.
"If these new documents were relevant to the NAS's review why were they previously undisclosed and withheld?... it now appears that the FBI -- which has consistently botched and bungled this case from the beginning -- may be seeking to try to steer or otherwise pressure the NAS panel to reach a conclusion desired by the bureau."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jy93TVYnbPX_9M58Qa8no...
Representative Rush Holt's letter to FBI Director.....
http://holt.house.gov/images/stories/FBILetter.120910.pdf
The last line of his letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller dated Dec 9 2010....
"I ask that you meet with me this week to explain the FBI's troubling conduct in this matter."
http://holt.house.gov/images/stories/FBILetter.120910.pdf
Their entire case is based on junk science and innuendo, it looks as though The FBI is trying to pressure scientists.
Barry Kissin testimony - Grim Reaper - part fiction, part fact
This thread about the contortions in making science become fantasy or at least invisible reminds me of the subject of the recent Steve Alten novel, Grim Reaper: End of Days;.I am only early into the book, but I got to read a visionary scene in 2012 when Barry Kissin testifies before US Congress.
In Alten's article that I posted on 911blogger, GRIM+REAPER+is+a+Trojan+Horse+for+9/11+Truth, he explained more about this merging of fact and fiction, but in Alten's case, his intention is to help the mainstream awaken to the real facts in the case and 9/11. In the NY Times case, the opposite is intended.
"..The story [Grim Reaper] takes place in the winter of 2012 when a man-made version of the Black Plague is unleashed in Manhattan. The hero, an injured war vet returning from his fourth deployment in Iraq, must journey through nine circles of suffering in order to bring the only vaccine to his estranged wife and child. Like 'Inferno,' the tale is an allegory of the soul's journey; at the same time the book reveals closely guarded secrets about 9/11, the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan (and Iran?) and the real source of the 2001 anthrax attacks -- an illegal Black Ops program with tentacles in Ft. Detrick, Maryland -- 'weaponized' by a private CIA-run lab in Ohio (Battelle) which continues to produce biological weapons that could wipeout humanity (paid for by our tax dollars!).
GRIM REAPER draws historical parallels to 2012 that are frightening. It will be exactly 666 years from the prophesied 2012 date that the Black Plague struck Europe and Asia, wiping out half the world's population. The 'Great Mortality' broke out following a period of greed and war, famine and corruption, with false prophets exhorting Christians to slaughter tens of thousands of Jews and Muslims. It was this near End of Days event that gave rise to a new figure depicted in 14th century art - the Grim Reaper.
GRIM REAPER is a Trojan Horse for 911truth.
Revealed to both the hero and reader is the truth about September 11th, and when it hits home, it will hit home factually, concisely, and in a manner that gets the reader to think. It is the catalyst to the story, concealed beneath layers of deception. It is the 9th circle of hell.
GRIM REAPER is also a mainstream tool that can lead the masses to the Richard Gages and David Ray Griffins. It will appear on the front tables of every Barnes & Noble, every Borders, every Books-A-Million, and in every major airport. It is a great story, yet one that causes the reader to think, or in the case of 9/11 Re-Think. It is the unexpected rock that, when tossed in a pond, causes major ripples.."
Will link from FN; thanks for article and comments..
Working link to your blog entry
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-10-01/grim-reaper-trojan-horse-911truth
many thanks..
i appreciate this correct link connection. thanks..
The Shell Game mass purchase
was the first 9/11 activism i did
I bought 10 copies, then later stood in speakers corner london uk (hyde park) and gave them away
the book makes interesting mentions of facts from newspapers etc about events related to 9/11
excellent for the mainstream to get the truth first in teaspoon amounts !
Ivins Attorney speaks
Attorney Paul Kemp says FBI falsely blamed Bruce Ivins for anthrax attacks (1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yXpr6dV_w
Attorney Paul Kemp says FBI falsely blamed Bruce Ivins for anthrax attacks (2 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWseM_R-V5Q
Attorney Paul Kemp says FBI falsely blamed Bruce Ivins for anthrax attacks (3 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1WGrP3PQEo&feature=related