Who dunnit?
Recap: Pop question … who executed the Anthrax terrorist attack?
I didn't know - dan @ 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 - 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 modern day equivalent) - a 30 year veteran. It gets better:
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.
For 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. What are we buying here?
Pfizer: This acquisition is an important component of Pfizer’s vaccine strategy.strategy (as) Coley is a pioneer in a new class of drug candidates called TLR Therapeutics .. (or) Toll-like receptors.
Toll-like receptors?- that's appropriate at least seeing how Coley's RNA-binding technology was integrally involved in Pfizer's toll-like regime.
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 - let's create the future.
His rationalization? It’s the only way to divert the planet’s trajectory as it hurtles towards self-destruction due to bad human behaviour. We have the capacity 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. 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, saying, we're all in this together - forever - we needya to comply, or you're all gonna die!
This is a crisis, all responsible citizens, who haven't fallen victim to misinformation, agree:
the new normal price of Freedom - is Freedom.