Oh yeah, I forgot. You know more than a team of CDC scientists, a team of scientists from AFIP, Detrick, you know more than John Parker, Ari Fleischer.
You know that, in spite of the FBI Lab's demonstrated track record of wrongdoing, with scientists admitting under oath they had published false results, that THIS time they didn't.
I don't know that the CDC still believes (or ever believed) the J-Lo letter contained anthrax. I just know the facts say that letter did NOT contain anthrax.
General Parker realized that USAMRIID had made a mistake in viewing chemical-saturated anthrax under the TEM, and he corrected that mistake as best he could in his briefings on October 31. He also made it very clear that there were a lot of things about the powder that still weren't fully understood at that time.
Like everyone else, Ari Fleischer may have made false assumptions in the early days of the investigation, but when he wrote his book "Taking The Heat" years later, he made it clear that AFIP only detected silicon and oxygen. He doesn't say anything in his book about there being silica in the anthrax. He wrote,
I dug deep into the story. I spoke not only to officials at the NSC but to researchers themselves at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology [AFIP]. They told me the Daschle anthrax contained silicon and oxygen but not aluminum.
Ed