2001 Anthrax attacks

 2001 Anthrax attacks 

Exposed by	Matt DeHart
Interest of	Emergent BioSolutions, Michael B. Green, Graeme MacQueen, Operation Dark Winter, Russell Welch
Subpage	•2001 Anthrax attacks/Timeline

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its FBI case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The ensuing investigation is said by the FBI to have become "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement" , and cost around $100,000,000.

Foreknowledge

As "a precaution", according to the Washington Post, Cipro was administered to Dick Cheney and his close staff on the evening of 9/11 as the Vice President was secreted off to an undisclosed location, days before the first anthrax letters were mailed., on the advice of Jerome Hauer. Bush's reactions to the anthrax mailings were, at best, slow and he took every opportunity to invoke "Osama Bin Laden" in the rhetoric he employed in his public utterances about them.

Bruce Ivins

Full article: Bruce Ivins

Bruce Ivins was a microbiologist, vaccinologist and biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He allegedly committed suicide by taking a drug overdose on July 29, 2008. On August 6, 2008, he was officially declared the lone nut behind the Amerithrax Attacks, 8 days after his alleged suicide. On February 19, 2010, the FBI formally closed its investigation. No direct evidence implicating Ivins was presented and some documents relating to the investigation remain under seal.

Conspiracy Charge

Patrick Leahy, one of the targets of the letter, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, charged conspiracy to that committee, in September 2008:

"If he [Bruce Ivins] is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people. I do not believe that at all. I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others out there, I believe there are others who could be charged with murder. I just want you to know how I feel about it, as one of the people who was aimed at in the attack."
Patrick Leahy, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 2008

Some commercially-controlled media quoted him briefly, but quickly generally ignored his remark.

Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program

A secret program entitled The Mail Isolation Control and Tracking Program was instituted in the wake of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks. This was hidden from the public for 12 years until cited by the FBI in its investigation of April 2013 ricin letters. Under the program, Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces in 2012. These images are kept so that the US Postal Service can retroactively track mail correspondence at the request of law enforcement.

Legal Action

In 2008, the Justice Department agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit by another former Fort Detrick scientist, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, whom investigators pursued for years before they cleared him.

On 2011-07-15, the Justice Department lawyers acknowledged in court papers that the sealed area in Ivins' lab — the so-called hot suite — did not contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that floated through congressional buildings and post offices in the fall of 2001. These statements were retracted 8 days later.

On 2011-11-29, an 8 year legal battle was finished which exposed slack rules and sloppy recordkeeping at the Army’s biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, the federal government agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of Robert Stevens, the first person killed in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, settling a lawsuit claiming that the Army did not adequately secure its supply of the deadly pathogen. As part of the agreement, Justice Department lawyers are seeking to have many documents that were uncovered in the litigation kept under court seal or destroyed.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Anthony Fauci	“After the 9/11 attacks, and the mysterious anthrax mailings that began a week later (which said, “TAKE PENACILIN [sic] NOW / DEATH TO AMERICA / DEATH TO ISRAEL / ALLAH IS GREAT”), the desire for biopreparedness became all consuming. Now there were emerging biothreats from humans as well as from the evolving natural world. Fauci’s anti-terror budget went from $53 million in 2001 to $1.7 billion in 2003.”	Anthony Fauci Nicholson Baker	4 January 2021
Robert Kadlec	““If several kilograms of an agent like anthrax were disseminated in New York City today, conservative estimates put the number [of] deaths occurring in the first few days at 400,000. Thousands of others would be at risk of dying within several days if proper antibiotics and vaccination were not started immediately. Millions of others would be fearful of being exposed and seek or demand medical care as well. Beyond the immediate health implications of such an act, the potential panic and civil unrest would create an equally large response.””	Robert Kadlec	1998
Operation Dark Winter	“Dark Winter not only predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks, but some of its participants had clear foreknowledge of those attacks.”	Whitney Webb	1 April 2020

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:911 Plotters Bury Anthrax Evidence	essay	3 August 2008	Michael B. Green
Document:All Roads Lead to Dark Winter	report	1 April 2020	Whitney Webb
Document:FBI Anthrax Frame-up	article	19 August 2008	Michael B. Green
Document:American Anthrax	webpage	1 November 2001	Joe Vialls

 

The Official Culprit

Name	Description
Bruce Ivins	A biodefense researcher at Fort Detrick, Maryland who, the FBI concluded, sent anthrax letters with crude anti-Zionist messages to the US politicians who were holding up the rollback of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. After an investigation costing around $100,000,000 Ivins was declared to be a "lone nut" responsible for the crime shortly after he was found dead.

Rating

30 November 2018 Robin  A good overview of this event which although at time was attributed to Al Qaeda, was later admitted to have been a false flag.
A thought provoking introduction to the 2001 Anthrax mailings, which were used to cow opposition to the PATRIOT Act, including the remarkable fact that the FBI's case lead has sued the agency, alleging malpractice!

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External Sites

• Dr Meryl Nass web site
• Deep Politics Forum Thread
• Wikipedia main Anthrax attacks page
• Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks