Who dunnit?
Recap: Pop question … who executed the Anthrax terrorist attack off the back of 911?
Extra points: What was their reasoning?
I didn't know - Dandan @ formosahut put me onto it. The FBI website states:
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 investigation - the biggest since the Kennedy assassination. Guessing that involved a whole-lotta of public spondula - soRobert - Robert -so 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 modern day equivalent) - a 30 year veteran. It gets betterbetter:
Ivins was an expert advisor to the FBI in their investigation.
A very good 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.
TheFor mine, 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
LA Times: In 2002, the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency doled out $12 million (to) Coley Pharmaceuticals for developing the additive. The company was acquired last fall by - Pfizer Corp. (2007)
Way to size-up a situation.
Bruce’s big picture? Boost funding fa bio-defense research via paradigm disruptiondisruption. -to by creating somecreate urgency - a security threat - a market for that - a culture - fuck it - let's create the future.
His rationalization? It’s the only way to divert the planet’s trajectory as it hurtles towards self-destruction. We have the ability to insert ourselves into that equation - to take control - to save the world - as one would - for the common good - it’s our solemn duty as scientific experts.
Apart from the planet bit - which - as luck would have it - got more fucked-up and perverted - the rest actually worked out perfectly for Ivins.perfectly. Bio-science funded through the roof - aloof scientific experts mobilized as total-authorities - on everything - overseeing global security on a centralized data base. To keep us safe. safe, Remember,saying, we're all in this together - forever - all responsible citizens need to comply, or we'you're all gonna die.die! This is a crisis, the new normal price of Freedom - is Freedom.