Exactly the same happened with the alleged Perps for JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11, Trump 'Attempted Assassination', Charlie Kirk. Why change their MO, when it always works as the whole system is as infiltrated and corrupt as hell, and accountability is non-existent?
My impression at the time was that the FBI needed a patsy, set Bruce Ivins up, and maybe killed him, but it was based upon far less information than you presented in this essay.
The Deep State was clearly responsible for BOTH 9/11 & the Anthrax attacks. Essential reading: The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen.
Was the anthrax episode preplanned to extract money from Congress to grow bio warfare? Was Fauci involved in a supervisory position. If he was under the microscope of the FBI, does that mean somebody fingered him as the most likely candidate and therefore the intense pressure that the FBI put on him caused him to commit suicide? It takes about three days to die from Tylenol and if he was under intense observation and they knew he purchased two bottles of Tylenol p.m. does that mean that they let it happen to close the case?
"The Cobra Event is a 1998 thriller novel by Richard Preston describing an attempted bioterrorism attack on the United States. The perpetrator of the attack has genetically engineered a virus, called "Cobra", that fuses the incurable and highly contagious common cold with one of the world's most virulent diseases, smallpox. The disease that results from the virus, brainpox, has symptoms that mimic those of Lesch–Nyhan syndrome and the common cold. The book is divided between descriptions of the virus and the government's attempt to stop the imminent threat posed by it. ..."
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**) PDD-62 - Protection Against Unconventional Threats to the Homeland and Americans Overseas, 5/22/1998
In her point #8, Meryl states: "FBI claims Bruce had the know-how to produce the weaponized spores found in the Leahy-Daschle letters. But FBI itself has failed to reverse engineer the spore production method, does not know what that method entails, and therefore cannot possibly know if Bruce had either the knowledge or access to all the equipment needed to produce such spores."
On September 16 and 17, 2008, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees respectively, conducted “Amerithrax oversight” hearings consisting of questioning FBI Director Robert Mueller. Both Meryl and I attended said hearings. Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) did manage to ask the $64,000 question. Salon.com journalist Glen Greenwald recounted this as follows: “Nadler asked one of the most central questions in the anthrax case: he pointed out that the facilities that (unlike Ft. Detrick) actually have the equipment and personnel to prepare dry, silica-coated anthrax are the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground and the Battelle Corporation, the private CIA/DIA contractor.
Battelle is the "Midwest contractor laboratory [that] had access to the spores" in flask RMR1029 mentioned by Meryl in her point #7.
However, I do not think the spores in either set of letters originated from flask, 1029
It did not have the Bacillis subtitles contaminant in the first set of letters.
I can’t guarantee that the second set of letters was not from a derivative of the spores in the flask, but they would have required a great deal more processing
The spores also could have come from a private laboratory within the United States or from a government or private lab outside the United States
I wrote the following in my now-defunct "Addiction Report," in which I viewed the news through the lens of alcohol and other-psychoactive-drug addiction, in August 2008. I wonder if I owe Bruce Ivins a postmortem apology. My article on Ivins:
Bruce Ivins, anthrax suspect. Verdict: alcoholic.
Bruce E. Ivins, PhD, was a leading scientist researching vaccines and cures for anthrax exposure. Until 2006, he was also one of the key members of the team investigating the October 2001 anthrax attacks. About a year ago, he emerged as the prime suspect in the one of the longest and most frustrating government investigations ever. A federal affidavit says he was the “sole custodian” of the unique strain of anthrax that killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. It asserts he was inexplicably working late on the nights before the deadly mailings and had not spent so many late-night hours in his lab “at any time before or after this period.” It states he purposely provided the wrong material when asked for samples. He had a decades-long obsession with a sorority with a chapter 60 feet from the only mailbox where spores from the letters were found. Learning he was going to be charged with five counts of murder, Ivins committed suicide.
If government investigators and those in management understood alcoholism, he might have been suspected far earlier, not only saving taxpayers millions but maybe even preventing the frightening episode from ever occurring.
Steven Hatfill was the first person of interest in the anthrax investigation, which is estimated to have cost the government at least $16 million. After realizing it had erred in focusing on Hatfill (awarding him $5.8 million for his trouble), Ivins, 62, came under scrutiny. He reportedly became distraught and died from a “prescription drug overdose” on August 1, with only Tylenol, a non-psychotropic drug, mentioned in initial news reports.
The “prescription” part, along with his reaction to being a target (consider the fact that the exonerated Hatfill didn’t commit suicide while under scrutiny for a far longer period), offered addictionologists clues to the likelihood of psychotropic drug addiction. However, evidence is not gold standard proof.
A dozen news reports and several days later, there was still no mention of heavy alcohol or other drug use in Ivins’ past. Instead, several items focused on a social worker, Jean C. Duley, who claimed that Ivins had stalked and threatened to kill her and she was “scared to death” of him. The addiction-aware might at first figure such threats as additional evidence of Ivins’ addiction. However, Duley has a 15-year police record including a DUI, at least two dropped arrests for DUI and dismissed charges for battery and possession of drug paraphernalia. Since Duley is, therefore, an addict, maybe she falsely accused Ivins, who might be just another Steven Hatfill. And while Duley works with (ironically enough) prescription drug addicts and had counseled Ivins, there was (and still is) no mention that he was being treated for addiction. In fact, she may have been a classic therapist enabler—she is reported to have met with Dr. Ivins in weekly therapy sessions for the past six months. No explanation was given as to the reason she continued meeting with someone she considered a stalker.
Two statements by his brother, however, provided additional behavioral evidence that Ivins might be alcoholic. “He has a master’s degree, and other degrees. He thought he was omnipotent.” Chapter 4 in How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics details specific behavioral clues to alcoholism, listed generically as “A Supreme Being Complex.” A God-like sense of self is a terrific clue to alcoholism. Most people with degrees do not consider themselves or act like God. Further, even his brother conceded that Bruce may have been the anthrax mailer, since “he considered himself like a God.”
Long before the Addiction Report existed, I suggested to friends that the anthrax culprit—just like most wrongdoers—would prove to be an alcoholic. Few others inflict harm on innocents to make a point, whether over outright hatred or a sick love for an America that “wouldn’t listen” and develop a viable vaccine against anthrax (the best alcoholic twisted-logic excuse offered so far for his actions). While the government rushed to develop prevention plans and policies to prevent similar attacks, only months earlier the alcoholic FBI agent, Robert Hanssen (see the July 2007 TAR for the review of “Breach,” the movie about the story), was arrested for selling more secrets to the Russians than any American ever, before or since. Despite the damage these two have done, there was has been no public discourse over the idea that alcoholics need to be identified and treated or fired, especially when involved with top-secret work and clearances.
Five days after his death, the first kernels of proof of Ivins’ alcoholism could be unearthed in the 24th paragraph of an article (“Documents link U.S. anthrax scientist to terrorism warning” by David Stout and Scott Shane) in the International Herald Tribune, which mentioned that the “prescription” part of the fatal overdose included codeine. While codeine is a painkiller for non-addicts it’s a psychotropic drug for addicts. So it’s possible he’s a non-addict who happened to get his hands on a bottle of Tylenol with codeine. However, in the coup de grace several paragraphs later friends and colleagues were quoted as saying that Ivins was so distraught by the FBI’s constant scrutiny he began “drinking excessively” and had to be hospitalized twice for “substance abuse.” A friend and fellow member of “a 12-step program for alcoholics” said that Ivins had not been a “drinker” in recent years. Perhaps, but the clear implication is he was a “drinker,” code-word for “alcoholic,” in prior years. Stress, including that created by an FBI search with agents questioning one’s spouse and children, can trigger a relapse. Since the house search over seven months ago another friend said Ivins was drinking “large amounts of vodka, combined with Ambien and prescription tranquilizers,” providing all the proof we need to diagnose alcoholism. As regular readers of these Reports and my books are aware, alcoholism is triggered at an average age of 13, not 62. The likelihood that Ivins’ God-like sense of self was rooted in a sick alcoholic mind borders on 100%. The need to be right regardless of cost, as well as the desire to control others, most likely impelled him to release anthrax to “prove his point” about the need for a vaccine.
Not only can we as individuals benefit from identifying the addicts in our lives, but also the country can as well. Journalists everywhere reported that “Ivin’s possible motive remains unclear.” Bio-warfare expert Elisa D. Harris said that in order to develop plans and policies that will prevent future attacks it’s important to know how the attacks were executed. However, those who understand that alcoholics need no motive grasp the idea that we need to prevent practicing addicts from gaining access to weapons and secret clearances and coerce as many of as possible into sobriety. If we get addicts sober, we eliminate over 80% of the people who would attack others and greatly reduce the need for plans and policies that would protect us from such people. And as I have said many times before in these pages, journalists can help forge the link between alcoholism and misbehaviors. They could start by informing the public of a suspect’s alcohol or other drug addiction closer to the 1st paragraph and at the inception of such reports rather than burying such crucial information in the 24th paragraph almost a week later.
No, Meryl. If we could be "driven to drink" by the pressures, trials, and tribulations of life, we'd all be alcoholics.
Alcoholism is in the genes. It is nature over nurture. Sure, such pressures can trigger a relapse, but not alcoholism itself. Availability allows alcoholism to be triggered, but not for the biological fact of alcoholism. Consider ancestry: why do 20-30% of Northern Europeans--northern Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles--have alcoholism, whereas only 5-10% of the Mediterranean populations have it? The latter had plenty of access to fermented grains and fruits for 10-15,000 years, while the former had such access for only the last 1,000-1,500 years, little time to build up enough alcoholism to result in a resistance to it. Native Americans, with such access for only the last 500 years, had little time on a micro-evolutionary scale to build a resistance to alcoholism. The result is an incidence as high as 75% on many Reservations.
If you are not an alcoholic, try drinking addictively. You won't be able to. Their biochemistry--the way they process the drug--is different from that of non-addicts.
Alcoholics don't show the classic signs of inebriation--staggered gait, slurred speech--until BALs as high as .24%, a point at which nearly every non-addict would be on their face. And they were born that way: they have extraordinarily high tolerance from the day the have their first drinking episode, average age, 13.
The secondhand informant is incorrect. If he was alcoholic, it was in his biochemistry, and he was likely drinking addictively since he triggered his alcoholism--average age, 13. And, if true, because alcoholism fuels egomania, it likely explains much of his life, from possibly overachieving as a scientist to the belief his is so good and all-powerful that only he could teach society a lesson.
Has a familiar ring to it doesn't it?
Attempting to frame and discredit the innocent.
Bless you Meryl for shedding the light not only in this case, but for the many that you report on daily.
Thankyou.
Exactly the same happened with the alleged Perps for JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11, Trump 'Attempted Assassination', Charlie Kirk. Why change their MO, when it always works as the whole system is as infiltrated and corrupt as hell, and accountability is non-existent?
Thank you for documenting the details in writing for posterity.
Thank You, Meryl.
My impression at the time was that the FBI needed a patsy, set Bruce Ivins up, and maybe killed him, but it was based upon far less information than you presented in this essay.
The Deep State was clearly responsible for BOTH 9/11 & the Anthrax attacks. Essential reading: The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen.
Was the anthrax episode preplanned to extract money from Congress to grow bio warfare? Was Fauci involved in a supervisory position. If he was under the microscope of the FBI, does that mean somebody fingered him as the most likely candidate and therefore the intense pressure that the FBI put on him caused him to commit suicide? It takes about three days to die from Tylenol and if he was under intense observation and they knew he purchased two bottles of Tylenol p.m. does that mean that they let it happen to close the case?
Cui bono? The two Senators/Congressmen were holding up the 'Patriot Act' - after the 'attack' they signed up to it. Why else were those two targeted??
Great read. There was a podcast about this that was really good. They should have interviewed you for it.
And then there's the handwriting on the envelopes. Did he or could he have penned such crude writing? Was he even tested for the possibility?
It is claimed that printing (vs use of cursive handwriting) is much harder to link to a perpetrator. Which led me to think the perp was a pro.
Your life is amazing!!!!!
Sure leaves MANY unanswered questions...I appreciate your diligence on this story and all your other posts!!
Let me introduce some more "stuff" in regards to "Anthrax"
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Next Generation Bioweapons: Genetic Engineering and Biological Warfare
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378416375_Next_Generation_Bioweapons_Genetic_Engineering_and_Biological_Warfare
January 2004
DOI:10.5040/9798400655715.ch-009
In book: The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm (pp.165-186)
Authors:
Michael J. Ainscough
... readable.
https://media.defense.gov/2019/Apr/11/2002115480/-1/-1/0/14NEXTGENBIOWEAPONS.PDF
January 2004 - Authors: Michael J. Ainscough
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And a "thriller" starting it all.
*) The Cobra Event
https://richard-preston.net/book/the-cobra-event/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cobra_Event
"The Cobra Event is a 1998 thriller novel by Richard Preston describing an attempted bioterrorism attack on the United States. The perpetrator of the attack has genetically engineered a virus, called "Cobra", that fuses the incurable and highly contagious common cold with one of the world's most virulent diseases, smallpox. The disease that results from the virus, brainpox, has symptoms that mimic those of Lesch–Nyhan syndrome and the common cold. The book is divided between descriptions of the virus and the government's attempt to stop the imminent threat posed by it. ..."
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**) PDD-62 - Protection Against Unconventional Threats to the Homeland and Americans Overseas, 5/22/1998
https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/12761
PDD-63 - Critical Infrastructure Protection, 5/20/1998
https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/12762
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And then
The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21818334
Graeme MacQueen
First published September 1, 2014
... and a review
The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/no_author/the-anthrax-deception/
Review of Graeme MacQueen’s Book
By Prof. Edward Curtin
Global Research - December 3, 2014
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Everything has a script.
Everything.
And the driver is fear.
In her point #8, Meryl states: "FBI claims Bruce had the know-how to produce the weaponized spores found in the Leahy-Daschle letters. But FBI itself has failed to reverse engineer the spore production method, does not know what that method entails, and therefore cannot possibly know if Bruce had either the knowledge or access to all the equipment needed to produce such spores."
On September 16 and 17, 2008, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees respectively, conducted “Amerithrax oversight” hearings consisting of questioning FBI Director Robert Mueller. Both Meryl and I attended said hearings. Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) did manage to ask the $64,000 question. Salon.com journalist Glen Greenwald recounted this as follows: “Nadler asked one of the most central questions in the anthrax case: he pointed out that the facilities that (unlike Ft. Detrick) actually have the equipment and personnel to prepare dry, silica-coated anthrax are the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground and the Battelle Corporation, the private CIA/DIA contractor.
Battelle is the "Midwest contractor laboratory [that] had access to the spores" in flask RMR1029 mentioned by Meryl in her point #7.
See "THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS AND ITS COVER-UP" at https://www.unz.com/article/the-truth-about-the-anthrax-attacks-and-its-cover-up/
Absolutely correct
However, I do not think the spores in either set of letters originated from flask, 1029
It did not have the Bacillis subtitles contaminant in the first set of letters.
I can’t guarantee that the second set of letters was not from a derivative of the spores in the flask, but they would have required a great deal more processing
The spores also could have come from a private laboratory within the United States or from a government or private lab outside the United States
I wrote the following in my now-defunct "Addiction Report," in which I viewed the news through the lens of alcohol and other-psychoactive-drug addiction, in August 2008. I wonder if I owe Bruce Ivins a postmortem apology. My article on Ivins:
Bruce Ivins, anthrax suspect. Verdict: alcoholic.
Bruce E. Ivins, PhD, was a leading scientist researching vaccines and cures for anthrax exposure. Until 2006, he was also one of the key members of the team investigating the October 2001 anthrax attacks. About a year ago, he emerged as the prime suspect in the one of the longest and most frustrating government investigations ever. A federal affidavit says he was the “sole custodian” of the unique strain of anthrax that killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. It asserts he was inexplicably working late on the nights before the deadly mailings and had not spent so many late-night hours in his lab “at any time before or after this period.” It states he purposely provided the wrong material when asked for samples. He had a decades-long obsession with a sorority with a chapter 60 feet from the only mailbox where spores from the letters were found. Learning he was going to be charged with five counts of murder, Ivins committed suicide.
If government investigators and those in management understood alcoholism, he might have been suspected far earlier, not only saving taxpayers millions but maybe even preventing the frightening episode from ever occurring.
Steven Hatfill was the first person of interest in the anthrax investigation, which is estimated to have cost the government at least $16 million. After realizing it had erred in focusing on Hatfill (awarding him $5.8 million for his trouble), Ivins, 62, came under scrutiny. He reportedly became distraught and died from a “prescription drug overdose” on August 1, with only Tylenol, a non-psychotropic drug, mentioned in initial news reports.
The “prescription” part, along with his reaction to being a target (consider the fact that the exonerated Hatfill didn’t commit suicide while under scrutiny for a far longer period), offered addictionologists clues to the likelihood of psychotropic drug addiction. However, evidence is not gold standard proof.
A dozen news reports and several days later, there was still no mention of heavy alcohol or other drug use in Ivins’ past. Instead, several items focused on a social worker, Jean C. Duley, who claimed that Ivins had stalked and threatened to kill her and she was “scared to death” of him. The addiction-aware might at first figure such threats as additional evidence of Ivins’ addiction. However, Duley has a 15-year police record including a DUI, at least two dropped arrests for DUI and dismissed charges for battery and possession of drug paraphernalia. Since Duley is, therefore, an addict, maybe she falsely accused Ivins, who might be just another Steven Hatfill. And while Duley works with (ironically enough) prescription drug addicts and had counseled Ivins, there was (and still is) no mention that he was being treated for addiction. In fact, she may have been a classic therapist enabler—she is reported to have met with Dr. Ivins in weekly therapy sessions for the past six months. No explanation was given as to the reason she continued meeting with someone she considered a stalker.
Two statements by his brother, however, provided additional behavioral evidence that Ivins might be alcoholic. “He has a master’s degree, and other degrees. He thought he was omnipotent.” Chapter 4 in How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics details specific behavioral clues to alcoholism, listed generically as “A Supreme Being Complex.” A God-like sense of self is a terrific clue to alcoholism. Most people with degrees do not consider themselves or act like God. Further, even his brother conceded that Bruce may have been the anthrax mailer, since “he considered himself like a God.”
Long before the Addiction Report existed, I suggested to friends that the anthrax culprit—just like most wrongdoers—would prove to be an alcoholic. Few others inflict harm on innocents to make a point, whether over outright hatred or a sick love for an America that “wouldn’t listen” and develop a viable vaccine against anthrax (the best alcoholic twisted-logic excuse offered so far for his actions). While the government rushed to develop prevention plans and policies to prevent similar attacks, only months earlier the alcoholic FBI agent, Robert Hanssen (see the July 2007 TAR for the review of “Breach,” the movie about the story), was arrested for selling more secrets to the Russians than any American ever, before or since. Despite the damage these two have done, there was has been no public discourse over the idea that alcoholics need to be identified and treated or fired, especially when involved with top-secret work and clearances.
Five days after his death, the first kernels of proof of Ivins’ alcoholism could be unearthed in the 24th paragraph of an article (“Documents link U.S. anthrax scientist to terrorism warning” by David Stout and Scott Shane) in the International Herald Tribune, which mentioned that the “prescription” part of the fatal overdose included codeine. While codeine is a painkiller for non-addicts it’s a psychotropic drug for addicts. So it’s possible he’s a non-addict who happened to get his hands on a bottle of Tylenol with codeine. However, in the coup de grace several paragraphs later friends and colleagues were quoted as saying that Ivins was so distraught by the FBI’s constant scrutiny he began “drinking excessively” and had to be hospitalized twice for “substance abuse.” A friend and fellow member of “a 12-step program for alcoholics” said that Ivins had not been a “drinker” in recent years. Perhaps, but the clear implication is he was a “drinker,” code-word for “alcoholic,” in prior years. Stress, including that created by an FBI search with agents questioning one’s spouse and children, can trigger a relapse. Since the house search over seven months ago another friend said Ivins was drinking “large amounts of vodka, combined with Ambien and prescription tranquilizers,” providing all the proof we need to diagnose alcoholism. As regular readers of these Reports and my books are aware, alcoholism is triggered at an average age of 13, not 62. The likelihood that Ivins’ God-like sense of self was rooted in a sick alcoholic mind borders on 100%. The need to be right regardless of cost, as well as the desire to control others, most likely impelled him to release anthrax to “prove his point” about the need for a vaccine.
Not only can we as individuals benefit from identifying the addicts in our lives, but also the country can as well. Journalists everywhere reported that “Ivin’s possible motive remains unclear.” Bio-warfare expert Elisa D. Harris said that in order to develop plans and policies that will prevent future attacks it’s important to know how the attacks were executed. However, those who understand that alcoholics need no motive grasp the idea that we need to prevent practicing addicts from gaining access to weapons and secret clearances and coerce as many of as possible into sobriety. If we get addicts sober, we eliminate over 80% of the people who would attack others and greatly reduce the need for plans and policies that would protect us from such people. And as I have said many times before in these pages, journalists can help forge the link between alcoholism and misbehaviors. They could start by informing the public of a suspect’s alcohol or other drug addiction closer to the 1st paragraph and at the inception of such reports rather than burying such crucial information in the 24th paragraph almost a week later.
My understanding is that he was driven to drink by the intense attention paid to him by the FBI
But this is secondhand information
No, Meryl. If we could be "driven to drink" by the pressures, trials, and tribulations of life, we'd all be alcoholics.
Alcoholism is in the genes. It is nature over nurture. Sure, such pressures can trigger a relapse, but not alcoholism itself. Availability allows alcoholism to be triggered, but not for the biological fact of alcoholism. Consider ancestry: why do 20-30% of Northern Europeans--northern Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles--have alcoholism, whereas only 5-10% of the Mediterranean populations have it? The latter had plenty of access to fermented grains and fruits for 10-15,000 years, while the former had such access for only the last 1,000-1,500 years, little time to build up enough alcoholism to result in a resistance to it. Native Americans, with such access for only the last 500 years, had little time on a micro-evolutionary scale to build a resistance to alcoholism. The result is an incidence as high as 75% on many Reservations.
If you are not an alcoholic, try drinking addictively. You won't be able to. Their biochemistry--the way they process the drug--is different from that of non-addicts.
Alcoholics don't show the classic signs of inebriation--staggered gait, slurred speech--until BALs as high as .24%, a point at which nearly every non-addict would be on their face. And they were born that way: they have extraordinarily high tolerance from the day the have their first drinking episode, average age, 13.
The secondhand informant is incorrect. If he was alcoholic, it was in his biochemistry, and he was likely drinking addictively since he triggered his alcoholism--average age, 13. And, if true, because alcoholism fuels egomania, it likely explains much of his life, from possibly overachieving as a scientist to the belief his is so good and all-powerful that only he could teach society a lesson.
Hear hear