Ross on charlie rose august 12, 2002
After a clip of Steven Hatfill denying that he had anything to do with the anthrax thang:
"We've talked to him(Hatfill) over the past three or four months. Long before his name was made public we were aware that his name had been given to the FBI by a number of his former colleagues at Ft. Detrick, which is the U.S. bio-weapons defense center. They were aware of Hatfill and they didn't like him there. He was fired in 1999 for violating lab procedures. And then he got a job with a government contractor and lost that security clearance for that job, August 23rd of 2001, just about a month before the anthrax went into the mail. So that started the suspicion that this was a person who might have a motive. He was mad at the world, in particular mad at the government. He doesn't think....
It tracks, actually, interestingly enough, a novel he'd been writing. About an anthrax-- biological attack on the U.S. Congress. He has been saying for years that the U.S. government is unprepared and they have failed to focus. They've-- He's been criticizing them for failing to focus on anthrax and instead focusing on AIDS. And that's a waste of resources.
He was a medical student in what is now called Zimbabwe -- in Rhodesia. He was what people call there a wanna-be. He was trying to associate himself with the right-wing white militia. It was a time when there was anthrax attacks against black farmers in Rhodesia. He lived near a town by the name of Greendale. And one of the things that interested the FBI was that the Greendale Elementary School was the fictitious return address on the letters sent to the two Senators in Washington. There are probably ten, twelve other reasons that Hatfill's name became very prominent...."
Very surreal here folks.
Stooopid government. Awww
Several scientists who worked with Ivins also question whether he would have had the technical skills to create the sophisticated powder used in the anthrax attack. Creating the kind of highly lethal, easily dispersible powder used in the 2001 attacks requires unique skills not normally associated with vaccine specialists.
"He had no access to dry, powdered anthrax, according to Fort Detrick spokespersons, who said that only liquid anthrax was used at the Fort Detrick facility in animal aerosolization experiments," said Meryl Nass, a physician and bioterrorism expert. "If he had been making dry anthrax, it would have been detectable."
Story done! See you, official version. You have been called out! what now?
Please read Greenwald. He has done almost all of the work on this
Greenwald does a great investigative report on just how misinformation was pushed on the media and the people of this country.
During the last week of October, 2001, ABC News, led by Brian Ross, continuously trumpeted the claim as their top news story that government tests conducted on the anthrax -- tests conducted at Ft. Detrick -- revealed that the anthrax sent to Daschele contained the chemical additive known as bentonite. ABC News, including Peter Jennings, repeatedly claimed that the presence of bentonite in the anthrax was compelling evidence that Iraq was responsible for the attacks, since -- as ABC variously claimed -- bentonite "is a trademark of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program" and "only one country, Iraq, has used bentonite to produce biological weapons."
ABC News' claim -- which they said came at first from "three well-placed but separate sources," followed by "four well-placed and separate sources" -- was completely false from the beginning. There never was any bentonite detected in the anthrax (a fact ABC News acknowledged for the first time in 2007 only as a result of my badgering them about this issue). It's critical to note that it isn't the case that preliminary tests really did detect bentonite and then subsequent tests found there was none. No tests ever found or even suggested the presence of bentonite. The claim was just concocted from the start. It just never happened.
That means that ABC News' "four well-placed and separate sources" fed them information that was completely false -- false information that created a very significant link in the public mind between the anthrax attacks and Saddam Hussein. And look where -- according to Brian Ross' report on October 28, 2001 -- these tests were conducted:
And despite continued White House denials, four well-placed and separate sources have told ABC News that initial tests on the anthrax by the US Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, have detected trace amounts of the chemical additives bentonite and silica.
Two days earlier, Ross went on ABC News' World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and, as the lead story, breathlessly reported:
The discovery of bentonite came in an urgent series of tests conducted at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and elsewhere.
Have fun!
Update #1
my god!!
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RAW STORY has found that, although there had been active online speculation about an Iraqi source for the anthrax by the first week of October, the first suggestion that official investigations were focusing on that nation appears to have come in an article published in the Guardian on October 14.
Under the headline, "Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks' - Pentagon hardliners press for strikes on Saddam," David Rose and Ed Vulliamy wrote, "American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack - and have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly spores. Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved, possibly indirectly, with the 11 September hijackers."
Rose and Vullaimy noted a (since-debunked) report that Mohamed Atta had met with an Iraqi agent in Prague, writing, "According to sources in the Bush administration, investigators are talking to Egyptian authorities who say members of the al-Qaida network, detained and interrogated in Cairo, had obtained phials of anthrax in the Czech Republic. Last autumn Mohamed Atta is said by US intelligence officials to have met in Prague an agent from Iraqi intelligence called Ahmed Samir al-Ahani, a former consul later expelled by the Czechs for activities not compatible with his diplomatic mission."
They added that, "It was confirmed yesterday that Jim Woolsey, CIA director from 1993 to 1996, recently visited London on behalf of the hawkish Defence Department to 'firm up' other evidence of Iraqi involvement in 11 September. Some observers fear linking Saddam to the terrorist attacks is part of an agenda being driven by US hawks eager to broaden the war to include Iraq, a move being resisted by the British government."