Who dunnit?
Recap: Pop question … who executed the Anthrax mailings terrorist attack - on the back of 911?
I didn't know - dan @ formosahut put me onto it. The FBI website states:
The Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section, expended - hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours on this case - and conducted more than 10,000 witness interviews on six different continents.
Wow - that’s a lot isn’t it?! A seven year Robert Mueller-led non- investigation - the biggest non-investigation since the Kennedy assassination. Guessing that involved a whole-lotta public spondula - so - Robert Mueller - who’s dunnit?
- drumroll …
Yeah i’d never heard of him either.
A US biodefense scientist from Lebanon, Ohio
Working at: Fort Detrick (WIV is the Chinese equivalent) - a 30 year veteran. It gets better:
Ivins was an expert advisor to the FBI in their investigation.
An amazing one apparently
LA Times: At a Pentagon ceremony in 2003 (two years in), Ivins and two colleagues from USAMRIID (who i wonder?) were presented with the Decoration of Exceptional Civilian Service.
That’s hilarious. I’m sure they deserved it - the highest honour Defense can give ya. I kid you not. Of all the experts bravely defending us in the war on bio-terror you’ve gone the very-one who mailed the letters!
Either you're the greatest idiots on earth - or - you're complicit - which is it? I can't think of a third explanation.
Ivins: Awards are nice - but the real satisfaction is knowing the vaccine is back on line.
The real dissatisfaction is knowing it was a known known within weeks it was a lab-leak from Fort Detrick. Each strain of Anthrax has its own unique kinda signature. The spores in the American attack were signed: Fort Detrick bio-weapons lab - Frederick County - Maryland.
Yeah … now might not be a very good time to talk about that - right when we are about to wage wars to fight bio-terrorism. How’s it gonna look if we caused it?
Motive: Ivins was a co-inventor on two patents for quote a genetically engineered anthrax vaccine. Two more for additives - which turned out the most lucrative - developed for Coley Pharmaceuticals - now owned by Pfizer Corp.
Ironically, Ivins later blamed his chronic blood disorder on having self-trialed too much of his own magic elixir.
Bruce’s big picture?: Boost funding fa bio-defense research via paradigm disruption
Inject a dose of urgency into the mix - an existential security threat - a market for that - a self-selling culture - fuck it - we'll fabricate the future.
Which, in fact, all worked out brilliantly.
Bio-science funded through the roof - aloof scientific experts mobilized as total-authorities - on everything. A ruse used as cover to rape your biodata. To keep you safe.
All thanks to a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated/covered-up by: top-experts acting with natural impunity ...
Love from THE science community.