On August 31, 2008 I sent Senator Leahy my 2700 word article from Dissident Voice about why Ivins must be innocent, and I explicitly make the case that the FBI’s role here is to divert attention from our illegal bio-weapons programs at Dugway in Utah and Battelle Memorial Labs in Jefferson, Ohio, which are revealed in the key Sept. 4, 2001 article in the NY Times, as dairymaid mentions above.

WO, When you can find the time, I’d like to hear you amplify on these points. I assume that what you mean by “the whole point”, is a reference to the purpose of the mailings, and that’s an avenue worthy of exploration.

PS I agree about the term “weaponization”; I suggest we consider (in this forum) the term “refined” or “improved”.

If it implicated Ivins as the anthrax mailer and implicated him as the sole mailer, I suppose it would have been placed out there by now. Better for the government to keep things murky.

Molecular biologist and bioweapons consultant Prof. Matthew Meselson was quoted in a link I read that the FBI showed him electron micrographs of the anthrax mailings. Meselson did not see any sign of silicon coating nor of milling to achieve uniform size. Maybe he is in a position to tell us more, but perhaps he signed a nondisclosure form with the government.

The first time I saw Meselson speak about the anthrax attack was on the evening news right after people died from anthrax. Meselson “helpfully” suggested that we need to know more about this anthrax strain. That it could have been bioengineered to be resistant to Cipro and all known medical treatments of natural anthrax.

However, the lack of culture medium debris in the Leahy sample indicates at the very least that someone took great care and time to produce pure samples. Such a person would know plenty about anthrax to know its extreme ability to float and kill anyone who inhaled its spores.
Nonweaponized anthrax of this variety is still a weapon.

Am I understanding the silicon/no silicon timeline correctly:
Was the silica/silicon issue pushed to prove a biolab source when the FBI thought they had Ivins pegged as the anthrax mailer? Then the “no silicon” meme being pushed more now that the FBI’s timeline doesn’t implicate Ivins? This way we don’t have to implicate another goverment lab?

If silica was in/on the deadly Leahy anthrax (it presumably it was there at the time the letter arrived in the Senate office) then anyone involved in sending it would be an accessory and not an accessory after the fact.

Leahy believes there may be accessories after the fact (people in the know who are not coming forward and are therefore criminals after the fact. Criminals because two people died from contact with the Leahy letter). I found the following Sen. Leahy interview published Sept 5, 2007 by the Vermont Daily Briefing where Sen. Leahy states as much. (I apologize if this has already been reviewed in prior posts)

Leahy: I’m a little sensitive on this one, because two people died touching an envelope I was supposed to open.

VDB: Sure.

Leahy: I feel badly for them, and for their families. And we spent three years, Marcelle and I couldn’t go anywhere without heavily armed people around us. Finally, I said, This guy’s not going to try anything, and our family wants our privacy back. [Meditatively] I wish they had turned this investigation over to some good sheriff or police chief somewhere. I think it’s been very badly handled.

VDB: Yeah, I don’t think there’s any other way to look at it. And when you call it what it is, it was biological warfare conducted against the highest levels of the US government.

Leahy: What I want to know — I have a theory. But what I want to know is why me, why Tom Daschle, why Tom Brokaw?

VDB: Right. That all fits into the profile of a kind of hard-core and obviously insane ideologue on the far Right, somebody who would fixate on especially Tom Daschle, who at that point was the target of daily, vitriolic attacks on Right-wing talk radio.

Leahy: [Slowly, with a little shake of the head] I don’t think it’s somebody insane. I’d accept everything else you said. But I don’t think it’s somebody insane. And I think there are people within our government — certainly from the source of it — who know where it came from. [Taps the table to let that settle in] And these people may not have had anything to do with it, but they certainly know where it came from.

There were Mormons running my school. They thought I intended to incite a riot.

lol.

Cannot for the life of me figure out what you would be planning to do that the Mormons would fear could incite a riot. Hope you can tell us more. My first and only thought, you threatened to do a Patty Hearst and appear on stage with a supersoaker filled with coffee.

http://www.battelle.org/locations/index.aspx