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United States citizens are increasingly enslaved, manipulated and murdered by

corporations, and very few of them seem to realize it!

2008-09-16 13:37:30 - US Attorney Jeff was sweating on August 6, as he

laid out his case against the late Dr. Bruce Ivins at a news conference­and with

good reason. Anyone familiar with the case is well aware that Dr. Ivins was

railroaded, and that the news conference was a flimsy web of lies.

Washington DC-based journalist Sheila Casey and attorney/peace activist Barry

Kissin write:

Ivins had nothing to do with the 2001 anthrax attacks. The attacks were almost

certainly carried out by the only group that had the means to produce the highly

weaponized anthrax in the letters: the CIA, its contractor Battelle Memorial

Institute of West Jefferson, Ohio, and the Army at Dugway in Utah.

The DOJ-FBI frame-up of Ivins rests heavily upon the claim of new advances in

genetic testing which supposedly prove that the killer anthrax could have come

only from Ivins' flask. Jeff stated: " The FBI sought out the best experts

in the scientific community and, over time, four highly sensitive and specific

tests were developed that were capable of detecting the unique qualities of the

anthrax used in the 2001 attacks. "

This is a distraction. No special tests were required to assess the genetic

heritage of the Ames strain in the envelopes. The Washington Post reported on

December 16, 2001 that " only five laboratories, so far, have been found to have

spores with perfect genetic matches to those in the Senate letters. "

The distinguishing feature of the anthrax that killed five people in 2001 is not

related to its genes. What made that anthrax unique was that it was highly

weaponized. Anthrax is a common pathogen found in the soil in many places. It

doesn't become a potential weapon unless produced in such a way that it behaves

like a gas, floating easily in the air and deep into a victim's lungs. The

anthrax used in the attacks was beyond cutting edge.

A. , former assistant secretary for the Office of Public Health

Preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services, told Science

magazine: " It just didn't have to be that good " to be lethal.

Why the killer anthrax was so deadly?

Precisely-sized particles­1.5 to 5 microns. Anything smaller is exhaled,

anything larger tends to get caught either in the nose or in the cilia in the

trachea.

Coated with silica. The silica acted as a buffer, preventing spores from

adhering to one another. The silica on the attack anthrax rested on a thin layer

of polymerized glass, which is a highly advanced technique for coating anthrax

spores. To do this required a " spray dryer, " the cheapest of which sells for

$50,000. The lyophilizer in Ivins' lab is used to dry anthrax, but can NOT be

used to coat the spores with silica. Ivins did not have a spray dryer.

Highly concentrated. The letter to Senator Daschle's office contained two grams

of anthrax, about the weight of a dime. Each gram contained a trillion pure

spores of anthrax, or enough to kill 200 million people.

Electrically charged. The same charge on each particle (of spores) caused the

particles to repel each other and thus to spread out into the room after the

envelope was opened.

No electrostatic charge. The particles were specially treated to eliminate

electrostatic charges so they float in the air

It is these attributes of the anthrax­not its genetic heritage­which made it so

unique and so lethal.

The source of the anthrax was clear in 2001

US Attorney Jeff characterized a flask in Dr. Ivin's possession as " the

murder weapon. " But a December 12, 2001 article in the Baltimore Sun stated: For

nearly a decade, US Army scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah have made

small quantities of weapons-grade anthrax that is virtually identical to the

powdery spores used in the mail attacks that have killed five people.

The article refers to Dugway as " the only site in the United States where

weapons-grade anthrax has been made in recent years, " and also includes this:

Dugway's production of weapons-grade anthrax, which has never before been

publicly revealed, is apparently the first by the U.S. government since

President M. Nixon ordered the US offensive bio-warfare program closed

in 1969.

The following day, The Washington Post echoed the Sun article: An Army

biological and chemical warfare facility in Utah has been quietly developing a

virulent, weapons-grade formulation of anthrax spores since at least 1992.

On December 16, 2001, The Washington Post corroborated the Sun report by stating

that " Dugway is the only facility known in recent years to have processed

anthrax spores into the powdery form that is most easily inhaled, " also stating,

" Army officials in Washington said yesterday that Fort Detrick does not have the

equipment for making dried anthrax spores. "

On September 4, 2001, The New York Times exposed: Over the past several years,

the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological

weapons . . . even the [Clinton] White House was unaware of their full scope.

The projects, which have not been previously disclosed . . . have been embraced

by the Bush administration, which intends to expand them.

These projects involve the CIA, Battelle Memorial Laboratories in West

Jefferson, Ohio, and the Army at Dugway in Utah.

The need to keep such projects secret was a significant reason behind President

Bush's recent rejection of a draft agreement to strengthen the germ-weapons

treaty, (the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention) which has been signed by 143

nations. Had the treaty been strengthened, the Dugway and West Jefferson sites

would have been subject to international inspections. It is important to note

that Battelle not only operates its labs in West Jefferson, but also is

contracted by the Army to operate the labs at Dugway.

The DOJ-FBI news conference on August 6, 2008, was a deliberate attempt to

divert attention from the secret anthrax weaponization projects by pinning the

crimes on a dead man. So far the DOJ-FBI have succeeded in covering up the real

perpetrators of the crime, concealing the illegal weapons program, and

persuading many that it is time to close the investigation.

Dr. Ivins was an immunologist; he had neither the knowledge nor the equipment to

produce the silica-coated, electro-statically charged, 1.5 to 5 micron sized,

one trillion spore per gram anthrax that was mailed to Senators Leahy and

Daschle. The DOJ has made much of the fact that Ivins worked 45 extra hours in

September and October of 2001. Yet when the FBI attempted to reverse engineer

the weaponized anthrax from the attacks, they admitted after a year of trying

that they were unable to come up with a product as potent as that in the

letters.

Scientists doubt FBI's story

As far back as October 28, 2002, The Washington Post reported that bio-weapons

experts were skeptical about the view that the anthrax in the letters could have

come from a lone nut: 'In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the

whole country who might be able to make this stuff, and I'm one of them,' said

O. Spertzel, former deputy commander of USAMRIID (the Army bio-defense

facility at Detrick). 'And even with a good lab and staff to help run it, it

might take me a year to come up with a product as good.'

Writing in The New York Times on August 9, 2008, Gerry s, an assistant

professor of microbiology at the University of Wyoming, described the envelopes'

contents as " a startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparation, the

likes of which had never been seen before by personnel at Fort Detrick. " He

continued: " It is extremely improbable that this type of preparation could ever

have been produced at Fort Detrick, certainly not of the grade and quality found

in that envelope. "

Abundant evidence that Ivins is innocent

Ivins passed two polygraph tests and no link was made between his handwriting

and that on the anthrax letters. Investigators were so frustrated at Ivins

passing the polygraph tests that they searched his house for books or articles

on how to fool a polygraph, but found none. US Attorney Jeff stated that

the investigators zeroed in on Ivins when they " conducted additional

investigative steps, " and thus were " able to narrow the focus even further,

exclude individuals, and that left us looking at Dr. Ivins. " Those " additional

investigative steps " were polygraph tests. Where passing a polygraph test was

enough to exclude certain people, it did not exclude Ivins.

Ivins' car, work locker, safe deposit box and house were thoroughly swabbed for

anthrax spores multiple times over the space of years; not a single spore was

found, although the killer anthrax was so highly weaponized that it behaved like

a gas and was very difficult to contain.

None of the materials in the mailings were found at his house: not the tape, the

envelopes, nor the pen used to write the letters. There isn't one piece of

evidence placing him in New Jersey at the time the letters were mailed: not a

credit card receipt, restaurant receipt, nor a witness.

On August 3, 2008, Glen Greenwald wrote in Salon: " It is so vital to emphasize

that not a shred of evidence has yet been presented that the now-deceased Bruce

Ivins played any role in the anthrax attacks, let alone that he was the sole or

even primary culprit. Nonetheless, just as they did with Hatfill, the

media (with some notable and important exceptions) are reporting this case as

though the matter is resolved. "

Bruce Ivins: juggler, Red Cross volunteer, pianist

Jeff 's case against Ivins rests heavily on claims that Ivins was mentally

ill. If Ivins was truly so unhinged, why was he allowed to work with toxic

substances? His security clearance was never revoked. Certainly a brilliant

homicidal serial killer who is determined to avoid detection would immediately

get rid of the Ames strain with the incriminating genotype in his flask, if he

had used it to make weaponized powder and kill five people. Yet years later, the

same genotype was still in Ivins' lab! The DOJ and FBI ask us to believe that

Ivins launched the attacks because his vaccine research was not going well and

he feared he might lose his job. It's just not a plausible motivation.

In 2003, Ivins received the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service­the

highest award given to the Defense Department's civilian employees. He had been

a respected scientist at USAMRIID for 35 years and had a very secure job.

Ivins had been married for 33 years. He played keyboard at his local church, he

was a member of the American Red Cross, an avid juggler and founder of the

Frederick Jugglers. He also played keyboards in a Celtic band and would often

compose and play songs for coworkers who were moving to new jobs. The FBI

focused on him as a probable fall guy in 2006, and for two years was all over

him, repeatedly questioning him, searching his home, car and office, and

confronting him and his family in public with accusations that he had " killed

people. " His daughter was shown pictures of dead anthrax victims and told " your

father did this. " His son was promised $2.5 million and a sports car of his

choice if he would implicate his father in the anthrax attacks. Who among us

would not resort to drink, or drugs, or fantasies of revenge under those

circumstances?

Who had the expertise to weaponize anthrax?

C. III, and Ken Alibek. was the originator of

the first anthrax weaponization process. He has five patents on anthrax

weaponization and wrote a paper in 1999 setting out exactly what an anthrax

attack by mail would look like. 's scenario is very similar to what

actually happened in 2001. For example, he suggests no more than 2.5 grams of

anthrax per envelope; the envelopes contained two grams. One footnote in his

paper reveals " we now have the ability to purify to one trillion spores per

gram. " was a consultant to the CIA, Battelle, the Army, the DIA

and the FBI on bio-weapons.

Ken Alibek headed up the Soviet bio-weapon programs until defecting to the USA

in 1992. He brought with him the technology that was key in the anthrax attacks:

using polymerized glass to coat anthrax spores. He worked for Battelle Memorial

Institute in the late 90s.

These men had to have been instrumental in developing the technology used in the

2001 anthrax attacks.

Who can control the FBI, DOJ and the media?

The significance of the railroading of the deceased Ivins cannot be overstated.

This railroading is not a matter of incompetence. In detail after detail, the

joint FBI-DOJ prosecution deliberately lies, evades and obfuscates in a

desperate attempt to pin blame somewhere and close the case. (A transcript of

the entire August 6 news conference is available on npr.org, titled " DOJ News

Conference On Bruce Ivins)

US Attorney Jeff states at the news conference that the envelopes used in

the attacks were " very likely sold at a post office in the Frederick, Md. area, "

and that Ivins had a post office box there. This is another outright lie.

's own application for a search warrant stated: -envelopes with printing

defects, identical to printing defects identified on the envelopes utilized in

the anthrax attacks during the fall of 2001, were collected from the Fairfax

Main post office in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Cumberland and Elkton post

offices in land.

and his supervisors at DOJ must be hoping that no one will notice or care

that they are blatantly lying about their evidence against Ivins.

Reading the transcript, it is striking how often Jeff and ph

Persichini refuse to answer questions. They either refer reporters to the

Department of Defense (which is not holding a news conference) or to the

documents they have been given. When asked when their all new, ground-breaking

DNA research would be published, replies " I'm not going to comment on

(that When asked a direct question about how many others were investigated other

than Ivins, replies " I'm not going to get into the details. "

Not only does he not get into the details, he doesn't even give us the broad

strokes. When asked how he can be so sure that there wasn't another person

involved, replies: The evidence I described in my statement, and that

I've described throughout this question-and-answer period, as I said, led us to

conclude that Dr. Ivins is the person who committed this crime. We are

confident, based on the evidence we have, that we could prove this case beyond a

reasonable doubt.

In other words, he doesn't answer.

Honest citizens must ask themselves: who are the FBI and DOJ protecting?

Who has the ability to control and corrupt an investigation of this importance?

And why, after sitting through a news conference that is obviously a hastily

constructed web of lies, have so many journalists dutifully reported the story

just as instructed by Jeff ?

We no longer have a working government in the United States ... what we have are

functionaries in various departments­Congress, FBI, DOJ, CIA­who take their

orders from the corporations who make vast sums of money waging war and selling

vaccines. Their influence extends to the major media outlets who control the

flow of information to the American people. We are increasingly enslaved,

manipulated and murdered by these corporations, and very few of us seem to

realize it.

Sheila Casey is a DC based journalist. Her work has appeared in The Denver Post,

Buzz Flash, Common Dreams and Dissident Voice. She blogs at www.sheilacasey.com/

Barry Kissin is an attorney/peace activist based in Frederick, MD, home of Fort

Detrick, and can be contacted at barrykissin@...

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