That Other Attack Inside The U.S. After 9-11

Even though Bush Doctrine supporters and the usual neo-con loving media mouthpieces continue to insist that George and Dick have kept America safe, conveniently, AFTER 9-11…..reality demonstrates such fabrication as just another lie from the most untruthful groups ever to occupy the White House and place a telepromter reader in a teevee anchor chair.

Weeks after the Towers fell, the U.S. was attacked again. And just like when 19 hijackers successfully penetrated our defenses, someone also penetrated our security system twice more on September 18, 2001 and again on October 9, 2001…..mailing anthrax filled letters out, curiously, to primarily high profile Democratic figures and media locations.

The same strong protectors of America that were controlling America's security levers before 9-11….were the same strong protectors controlling America's security when more Americans died weeks later from biological warfare.

Also eerily similar is the fact that, now in 2008, Bin Laden still hasn't been brought to "justice", and the anthrax culprit(s) haven't been either. Not only did the Bush/Cheney protectors of America fail to stop those TWO terrorist attacks from happening in the first place…..they haven't caught the culprits who orchesrated the attacks, either. Bush/Cheney have failed on both ends of the events.

The anthrax investigation is still ongoing. I know, I was surprised as well. Though kept relatively quiet all these years, I strongly believe that where the anthrax came from originally should be broadcast and repeated far and wide. The reason? I am of the opinion that our government leaders can't be trusted. It's just the way I approach national and international events.

March 28, 2008 from FOX News…

The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.

Among the pool of suspects are three scientists — a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist — linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID.

The FBI has collected writing samples from the three scientists in an effort to match them to the writer of anthrax-laced letters that were mailed to two U.S. senators and at least two news outlets in the fall of 2001, a law enforcement source confirmed.

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"Fort Detrick is run by the United States Army. It's the most secure biological warfare research center in the United States," a bioterrorism expert told FOX News.Link

Americans should be aware that the anthrax sent out in letters only weeks after the Twin Towers fell came from an United States Army bioweapons research facility. Let me repeat that,….the anthrax sent out in the mail, which resulted in numerous deaths, which was sent to Tom Daschle and Pat Leahy's offices, originated from an U.S. Army bioweapons research facility right here in the good ole' U.S.A.

Because we know that the anthrax was "home grown", and because we know the home grown anthrax came from a military location…..it leads me to suggest a couple of possibilities.

#1-The anthrax was sent out by a disgruntled person who had access to this stuff. Some random nut, maybe like the Unabomber. This was the line pushed by the media initially, perhaps prompted by Bush officials using Steven Hatfill as their whipping boy. Draining swamps and scouring Hatfill's life and movements, going down into all the nooks and crannies of hypothetical nonsense and in so doing creating a national impression that Hatfill was, indeed, the disgruntled whacko who did the evil deed. Even though he wasn't.

I suppose it is still possible that yet another potential disgruntled or disturbed individual who just happened to have access to highly securitized weapons grade anthrax powder on a military establishment will be outed as the villain. I'm admitting that is still a possibility, however remote.

#2-The anthrax was sent out, selectively, on the order of higher ups in our government. One motivation may have been to help promote the idea that Saddam should be attacked. We now know, many years later, that Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney wanted to hit Iraq immediately after 9-11. Saddam's Iraq was, at the very least, known for using biological warfare against Iran. Saddam also had a history of possessing anthrax and other dangerous substances. Saddam would be an easy fit into an already conceived narrative.

A second motivation could have been to scare Congressional Democrats into granting Bush/Cheney the widest of police state militaristic powers to do whatever they wanted. Such granting of powers is found in the Patriot Act.

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Reviewing….

Tom Carey was inspector in charge of the FBI Amerithrax investigation from October 2001 to April 2002.

On an Iraqi connection,

"What I would say is the information that came out there that led weapons inspectors and others to suspect the Iraq connection was wrong information. Now it doesn’t say we still wouldn’t look for any potential connection to Iraq, or rather any other States sponsored terrorist, but what they specifically referred to didn’t exist, and it was misinformation."[67] Link

On the possibility there was advance knowledge…..

…the Bush administration has failed to provide a complete and accurate response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request concerning the decision to place White House staff on a regimen of the powerful antibiotic, Cipro, the same day as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. By contrast, U.S. Postal Service workers from Washington, DC’s Brentwood Postal Facility – Judicial Watch clients – were denied antibiotic treatment, even after it became apparent that the Brentwood facility had been contaminated. Link

Please take the time to go over this timeline….nearly 7 years of retrospection places the events in a different light….

Sept.16 — Anti-terrorism bill proposed.[3]

Sept.18 – Two letters containing Ames anthrax are postmarked in Trenton, N.J., addressed to Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News and the New York Post.

Sept.28 – Boy visiting ABC network in New York contracts anthrax.

Oct.2 – USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism bill is introduced in Congress.

Oct.3 – Tabloid editor of Boca Raton Sun, Florida, hospitalized with anthrax and dies two days later.

Oct. 3 – Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (Dem., S.D.) says he doubts the Senate could take up the anti-terrorist legislation before next week, as the administration had asked. Attorney General John A. Ashcroft accuses Senate Democrats of dragging their feet.[4]

Oct. 4 – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (Dem., Vt.) accuses the administration of reneging on an agreement on the anti-terrorist bill. Some warn that “lawmakers are were overlooking constitutional flaws in their rush to meet the administration’s timetable.”[5]

Oct. 6 – Under the headline, “Glow of bipartisanship seems to dim,” the Baltimore Sun reports: “…opposed by most Senate Democrats, Ashcroft complained about the rather slow pace…over his request for law enforcement powers…Hard feelings remain.”[6]

Oct. 8 – Under the headline, “Cracks in Bipartisanship Start to Show,” The Washington Post reports, “Congress has lost some of the shock-induced unity with which it first responded to the [9/11] attacks.”[7]

Oct.9 – Senator Feingold blocks an attempt to rush the Patriot Act to a vote with little debate and no opportunity for amendments. Feingold criticizes the Bill as a threat to liberty.[8]

Oct.9 – Identical anthraxed letters are postmarked in Trenton, N.J., with lethal doses to Senators Daschle and Leahy.

Oct. 10 & 11 – The original batch of the Ames strain of anthrax is destroyed with the permission of the FBI, making tracing the anthrax type more difficult.[9]

Oct.11 – First Senate version of the Bill passes.[10]

Oct.12 – First House version of the Bill passes.[11]

Oct.12 – House-Senate debate on Bill starts.[12]

Oct.12 – Second anthrax case reported at NBC in NYC.

Oct.13 – Baltimore Sun reports that the media may have been targeted for a “coordinated bioterrorism” attack.[13]

Oct.13 – President Bush says: “The anthrax attacks might be tied to Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorist network.”[14]

Oct.15 – Tom Brokaw of NBC opens anthraxed letter containing Islamic threats and phrases.

Oct.15 – Senator Daschle’s office opens the letter mailed Oct.9, containing a lethal dose of anthrax. Senator Leahy’s similar letter was misrouted to Virginia.

Oct.16 – The Senate office buildings shut down.

Oct.17 – House of Representatives shut down; 28 congressional staffers test positive for anthrax.

Oct.17 – The New York and Florida letters are found to contain the Ames strain.

Oct.18 – An assistant of CBS Dan Rather contracts anthrax.

Oct.21 – Letters to N.Y.Post, NBC and Senator Daschle are found to have identical handwriting of “Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great.”

Oct. 24 – House passes the final version of the Patriot Act and other previously unpopular Bush projects: Alaska oil drilling, $25 billion in tax cuts for corporations, taps into Social Security funds and cuts in education.[15]

Oct.25 – Congressional mail halted. Senator Daschle switched from supporting a 2 year limit on the Patriot Act to defending a 4 year sunset clause as the “appropriate balance.”[16]

Oct.26 – Senate passes the final version Patriot Act.[17]

Oct.26 – President Bush signs the constitutionally questionable USA Patriot Act.[18]

Oct.27 – Supreme Court shut down with anthrax scare.[19] Link

Sandwiched in between the introduction of the Patriot Act in Congress and the final vote to pass the Patriot Act….came the second round of anthrax letters. That round specifically targeted two Democratic Party leaders who had been voicing their displeasure with provisions in the bill.

Conclusion for now: In hindsight and after having had scare tactics used on us for so many years now…..I don't think it is too big of a stretch to understand the anthrax attacks as the final motivating factor provoking even staunch civil liberties Democrats into voting for the totally anti and un American…..Patriot Act.

This would mean, naturally, and I've believed this for a long time now, that the Bush/Cheney regime had successfully engineered, and continues to this day to carry out, an overthrow of the United States of America.

To me, it is impossible…incredible….to suggest all of this is just coincidence.