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Wednesday, August 6 2008 - Anthrax

Anthrax News Review

Dear Readers,

For several days I've been trying to find or write a decent "summary" article about this whole anthrax debacle. I give up. The FBI says this, Daschle says that, Ivins' friends say this, his "theripist" says that... Many of us have followed this mess for years now, and as with the events of 9/11, the pile just gets deeper and deeper. As we say in my neck of the woods, "Better git yer hipwaders out for this one 'cause it's gittin deep in here!"

Of course, we all still want an answer as to why now-infamous Jerome Hauer advised the White House to begin Cipro (the antibiotic specifically prescribed to counter anthrax infection) on 9/11, albeit the anthrax attacks didn't begin until September 18th ... I still don't see any media asking that question, even now that the FBI has suddenly decided to spill the beans about the whole mess.

I think the best summary, at this point, may be this: A whole lot of people are lying about a whole lot of things--and as usual, a few courageous individuals are trying hard to tell the truth but being largely ignored!

However, I have found three excellent sources on this matter to which I am now turning for information and thus refer you for consideration:
1) atlargely.com, blogged by Raw Story's Managing Editor of Investigative News, Larissa Alexandrovna (especially this and this),
2) anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/, blogged by Meryl Nass, MD, (who also runs www.anthraxvaccine.org), and
3) Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator and now Contributing Writer at Salon.com.

And I think this following little summary sets just the right tone to end this day! As Dr. Nass says, "See what power reporting has?" 911truth.org applauds all of you who have also become the media. Indeed, we are the ones we've been waiting for.

– Ed.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008, from Meryl Nass, anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/
FBI Apologizes--CBS News
See what power reporting has? It can solidify a tower of Bullshit, or cause it to collapse.

The bloggers deserve a lot of credit for transforming the Ivins reportage, via impressive investigations and and logical thinking. Their work may have turned this case from one of conviction by innuendo -- into one that will receive a fairer hearing, and has even elicited an apology by FBI for the pathetic and improper leaks over the past 5 days. TIME reporters Amanda Ripley and Massimo Calabresi deserve kudos for telling it like it is:

While the FBI waits to formally release its evidence against Bruce E. Ivins, the microbiologist it claims to have linked to the anthrax mailings seven years ago, who killed himself on July 29, the public is getting a sneak peek — by way of federal leaks to the media. The leaks are piling up almost too fast to keep track of. Some seem damning, others perplexing, but the pause is creating a strange void — in which leaks are followed by rebuttals from Ivins' colleagues and his attorney (who steadfastly denies that his client had any role in the attacks) and then followed by more leaks. The result leaves neither Ivins nor the FBI looking good.

And CBS has it right, based on the leaky information so far available:

It is unclear how the FBI eliminated as suspects others in the lab who had access to the anthrax. It's not clear what, if any, evidence bolsters the theory that the attacks may have been a twisted effort to test a cure for the toxin. Investigators also can't place Ivins in Princeton, New Jersey, when the letters were mailed from a mailbox there.

So, the FBI caved, at least for today:

FBI official John Miller said that "what we have seen over the past few days has been a mix of improper disclosures of partial information mixed with inaccurate information and then drawn into unfounded conclusions. None of that serves the victims, their families or the public."

I'm going to sleep better tonight. And look forward to reviewing the evidence tomorrow.

Source URL: http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2008/08/fbi-apologizes-cbs-news.html