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The FBI's Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci's Emails
Greenwald ^ | 6-3-21 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 06/03/2021 7:18:13 PM PDT by dynachrome

One of the most significant events of the last two decades has been largely memory-holed: the October, 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S. Beginning just one week after 9/11 and extending for another three weeks, a highly weaponized and sophisticated strain of anthrax had been sent around the country through the U.S. Postal Service addressed to some of the country's most prominent political and media figures. As Americans were still reeling from the devastation of 9/11, the anthrax killed five Americans and sickened another seventeen.

As part of the extensive reporting I did on the subsequent FBI investigation to find the perpetrator(s), I documented how significant these attacks were in the public consciousness. ABC News, led by investigative reporter Brian Ross, spent a full week claiming that unnamed government sources told them that government tests demonstrated a high likelihood that the anthrax came from Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program. The Washington Post, in November, 2001, also raised “the possibility that [this weaponized strain of anthrax] may have slipped through an informal network of scientists to Iraq.” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on The David Letterman Show on October 18, 2001, and said: “There is some indication, and I don't have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may -- and I emphasize may -- have come from Iraq.” Three days later, McCain appeared on Meet the Press with Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and said of the anthrax perpetrators: “perhaps this is an international organization and not one within the United States of America,” while Lieberman said the anthrax was so finely weaponized that “there's either a significant amount of money behind this, or this is state-sponsored, or this is stuff that was stolen from the former Soviet program” (Lieberman added: “Dr. Fauci can tell you more detail on that”).

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthrax; fauci; fbi; greenwald
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Fauci was everywhere.
1 posted on 06/03/2021 7:18:13 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome
(Lieberman added: “Dr. Fauci can tell you more detail on that”).
2 posted on 06/03/2021 7:18:38 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

You left out the part where the light is shed.

What’s the take home?


3 posted on 06/03/2021 7:21:05 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dynachrome

Fugazzi


4 posted on 06/03/2021 7:23:30 PM PDT by conservativeimage (The mask is a boot stamping on a human face forever.)
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To: ifinnegan

A convenient death. What was fauci’s role in all this?

“A full seven years after the attack, the FBI once again claimed that it had found the perpetrator: this time, it was the microbiologist Bruce Ivins, a long-time “biodefense” researcher at the U.S. Army’s infectious disease research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Yet before he could be indicted, Ivins died, apparently by suicide, to avoid prosecution. As a result, the FBI was never required to prove its case in court. The agency insisted, however, that there was no doubt that Ivins was the anthrax killer, citing genetic analysis of the anthrax strain that they said conclusively matched the anthrax found in Ivins’ U.S. Army lab, along with circumstantial evidence pointing to him.


5 posted on 06/03/2021 7:26:45 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

Thanks.

FBI needs to go. No longer exist.

It served its purpose and is now a detriment to the United States.


6 posted on 06/03/2021 7:31:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dynachrome
The original source of that strain of anthrax was from one cow in S Texas.

It was from a US lab.

7 posted on 06/03/2021 7:34:47 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be that's for sure.)
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To: dynachrome

Did Fauci fund the anthrax too?


8 posted on 06/03/2021 7:42:52 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: dynachrome

And then the word came down that everyone in the military had to receive the Anthrax vaccine.

Even the people who weren’t going to Iran.

Everyone.

They told us take the vaccine, resign or get kicked out.

Those were our choices.

I took the vaccine. I was too close to retiring to just walk away.

Besides, my government wouldn’t hurt me....would they?

I started passing out.

I passed out in the ER and woke up with the Doctor holding the shock paddles and a nurse saying “He’s back.”

They ran every test they had at that hospital.

My Doctor said I had autoimmune diseases.

Does that sound like what’s going on with Covid?

Maybe they didn’t kill enough of us with the Anthrax vaccine.


9 posted on 06/03/2021 7:47:10 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Deaf Smith
The original source of that strain of anthrax was from one cow in S Texas. It was from a US lab.

Senator Rand Paul, please pickup the courtesy phone

10 posted on 06/03/2021 7:49:33 PM PDT by orlop9
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To: dynachrome

Who would trust the Brain Trust at the FIB?


11 posted on 06/03/2021 7:52:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: blueunicorn6

Just Wow! They made us their guinea pigs. What could we say? The bastards deserve cold hard justice


12 posted on 06/03/2021 7:53:36 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Deaf Smith; dynachrome
From the article...
It was not naturally occurring anthrax. Scientists quickly identified it as the notorious Ames strain, which researchers at the U.S. Army lab in Fort Detrick had essentially invented. As PBS’ Frontline program put it in 2011: “in October 2001, Northern Arizona University microbiologist Dr. Paul Keim identified that the anthrax used in the attack letters was the Ames strain, a development he described as ‘chilling’ because that particular strain was developed in U.S. government laboratories.” As Dr. Keim recalled in that Frontline interview about his 2001 analysis of the anthrax strain:
We were surprised it was the Ames strain. And it was chilling at the same time, because the Ames strain is a laboratory strain that had been developed by the U.S. Army as a vaccine-challenge strain. We knew that it was highly virulent. In fact, that’s why the Army used it, because it represented a more potent challenge to vaccines that were being developed by the U.S. Army. It wasn’t just some random type of anthrax that you find in nature; it was a laboratory strain, and that was very significant to us, because that was the first hint that this might really be a bioterrorism event.

13 posted on 06/03/2021 7:57:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: All

3000 more emails coming out:
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14 posted on 06/03/2021 7:58:07 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I wouldn’t be surprised if some was stolen and sold.


15 posted on 06/03/2021 8:00:04 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If I recall from reporting years ago, the Ames strain was weaponized from the Texas source. (Gain of function?)


16 posted on 06/03/2021 8:04:53 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be that's for sure.)
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To: dynachrome

“A full seven years after the attack, the FBI once again claimed that it had found the perpetrator: this time, it was the microbiologist Bruce Ivins, a long-time “biodefense” researcher at the U.S. Army’s infectious disease research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Yet before he could be indicted, Ivins died, apparently by suicide, to avoid prosecution. As a result, the FBI was never required to prove its case in court. The agency insisted, however, that there was no doubt that Ivins was the anthrax killer, citing genetic analysis of the anthrax strain that they said conclusively matched the anthrax found in Ivins’ U.S. Army lab, along with circumstantial evidence pointing to him.

This must have been after the FBI falsely accused Hatfill of being the anthrax perpetrator and eventually driving him to suicide.


17 posted on 06/03/2021 8:27:58 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: dynachrome

>>the October, 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S. Beginning just one week after 9/11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

Experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (CCBS) concluded that one of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers, Ahmed al-Haznawi, had likely been exposed to anthrax. Al-Haznawi and another man arrived in the emergency room of a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hospital presenting an ugly, dark lesion on his leg that he said he developed after bumping into a suitcase two months earlier. Dr. Christos Tsonas thought the injury was curious, cleaned it and prescribed an antibiotic. After September 11, federal investigators found the medicine prescribed by Tsonas among the possessions of al-Haznawi.[150]

Tsonas came to believe that al-Haznawi’s lesion “was consistent with cutaneous anthrax”, a disease that causes skin lesions. The experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies interviewed Tsonas and prepared a memorandum that was circulated among top government officials. The memorandum said that the diagnosis of cutaneous anthrax was “the most probable and coherent interpretation of the data available” and that “such a conclusion of course raises the possibility that the hijackers were handling anthrax and were the perpetrators of the anthrax letter attacks”.

Several 9/11 hijackers, including al-Haznawi, lived in Boca Raton, Florida, near American Media, Inc., the workplace of the first victim of the anthrax attacks. They also attended flight school there. Some of the hijackers rented apartments from a real estate agent who was the wife of an editor of the Sun, a publication of American Media. Further, a pharmacist in Delray Beach, Florida, stated he had told the FBI that two of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, entered the pharmacy seeking medicine to treat irritations on Atta’s hands.[150]

If the 9/11 hijackers were involved in the anthrax attacks, they would have needed an accomplice to mail the tainted letters since the four recovered anthrax letters were postmarked on September 18 and October 9.[150]


18 posted on 06/03/2021 8:29:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Let’s add this possibility into the mix:

China was involved

This info is why China to this day continually propagandizes that this us military lab created Covid.

China may have paid the American scientist to do the attacks in 2001.


19 posted on 06/03/2021 9:19:58 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: Nailbiter

flr


20 posted on 06/03/2021 9:32:25 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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