Frederick News Post column proclaims Ivins' innocence
Terrific column in the Frederick News-Post today about the flimsiness of the govt case against Ivins. Please email Katherine Heerbrandt thanking her for naming the "elephant on the grassy knoll."
Note that contractor Battelle, who received this contract for $750 million, is a tax-exempt organization. No doubt they willl use the $750 million to heal the sick and bring comfort to the afflicted.
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=79410
Katherine Heerbrandt
If not Ivins ...
Originally published August 29, 2008
When Norm Covert, a conservative former Fort Detrick public affairs officer, and attorney Barry Kissin, liberal activist opposing Detrick's biolab expansion, agree that Bruce Ivins was not the anthrax killer, either the world's spinning off its axis, or the truth is staring us so hard in the face we'd have to be blind to miss it.
Covert's piece this week in thetentacle.com establishes what many in our community, including scientists and support staff at USAMRIID, past and present, know: Bruce Ivins had nothing to do with preparing or sending the anthrax letters. --
In a recent letter to the FNP editor, Amanda Lane speaks for many who knew him: "I want to shout from the mountain tops that Bruce was the kind of man we look up to ... He was a decorated scientist and the humblest of men who didn't use his title as a status symbol. He picked up a mop or emptied the trash without a moment's hesitation. If he thought you were having a bad day he would offer candy or a catchy tune to cheer you up. If someone had to stay late to accomplish a task, Bruce would work with you so that the task would get completed faster."
Covert echoes what is widely reported by reputable scientists. The anthrax in the mailings, he says, was "highly bred, weapons-grade ... with a silica coating and a slight electrical charge so that each particle repelled the other ... each particle no more than five microns." Ivins had neither the expertise nor the equipment to create such a sophisticated form of anthrax.
But if not Ivins, then who or what?
"It's the elephant in the room nobody's talking about," Kissin says.
Since Nixon terminated the offensive weapons program at Detrick in 1969, there has been only one corporation in our country that operates laboratories where anthrax is weaponized: Battelle Memorial Laboratories, the corporation that does the biolab work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
In December 2001, FBI Director Mueller announced that the Battelle-operated labs in West Jefferson, Ohio and at Dugway had been "searched," and that there were NO suspects in those labs.
The FBI has not mentioned Battelle since.
New York Times science writer William Broad covered the subject in his 2002 book "Germs, Biological Weapons and America's Secret War." According to Broad, Projects Jefferson and Clear Vision, begun in the late '90s were ongoing secret anthrax weaponization projects. Project Clear Vision was managed by the CIA at the Battelle labs in West Jefferson, Ohio. Project Jefferson was managed by the DIA at the Battelle-operated labs at Dugway.
Kissin and writer Sheila Casey thread this information together in a recently published article in the Rock Creek Free Press, http://www.rockcreekfreepress.com/CreekV2No9-Web.pdf, to conclude that the case against Ivins is nothing but a flimsy cover-up of the secret workings of these anthrax weaponization projects.
How do Americans even begin to confront the reality that the only bioattack in our history came from an American military/intelligence lab? An attack we were told made the massive expansion of biolabs at Detrick and across the country necessary.
And guess who's been hired for $750 million to manage and operate the first new biolab facilities at Detrick that are about to open?
Battelle Memorial Laboratories.
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Fantastic, informative
post.
One Point
Knowing this angle of the anthrax attacks, how could anybody conclude that Al Queda had anything to with them?
Beef stew, they conclude that only because their TV told them so
As I said in the interview, as long as Americans sit passively in front of their TVs being spoon fed lies from CNN, Fox, MSNBC et al, and believing every word, no broad based awakening is possible. Media reform absolutely is a necessary component of waking people up. This "reform" may consist of nothing more than millions turning off their TVs and ignoring newspapers like The Washington com-Post and The New York Crimes, and instead seeking out information on the internet.
This is one reason street action is so important. People can't look for stuff they don't know exists. But if they are handed a brochure, or they pick up a paper like the Rock Creek Free Press at a metro stop, and really read it, it will begin to dawn on them that all is not as it seems here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Distributing the Creek is easy. A 67 year old grandmother in the Bay area (CA) is doing it. She leaves them on racks in coffee houses and other venues for free papers. I met her at a meditation retreat in India, and her spirituality is not just empty words. She's taking it to the streets.
If you are more ambitious you can find an abandoned newspaper box, palnt it blue, and put some Creek stickers on it. Then email the Creek's editor at editor@RockCreekFreePress.com to add your name to the list and you'll get 100 papers shipped to you every month, with which to stock the box. I do this in the town where I live and it is a thrill to go by the box and find it empty!
We can't change the media, but we can BE the media.
knowing this angle
it shouldn't be too hard to find out who really sent it.