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Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal op ed page featured an anthrax scientist's comprehensive critique of the FBI's anthrax investigation.
This article, linked at my sig, repeatedly cites putative FBI statements from news media and other sources and purports to debunk every claim that the anthrax came from specific Army programs such as USAMRIID or the "now extinct U.S. Biological Warfare Program."
What's intriguing, though, is that author Richard Spertzel does not explicitly offer a general denial that the United States government could have made this anthrax. Spertzel only offers specific labs and programs that could not have made the anthrax (specifically, the Leahy-Daschle anthrax), in his opinion.
His article is sprinkled with references to news reports, third-hand sources and extraordinary insider revelations:
That's what was briefed (according to one of my former weapons inspectors at the United Nations Special Commission) by the FBI to the German Foreign Ministry at the time.
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In meetings held on the cleanup of the anthrax spores in Washington, the product was described by an official at the Department of Homeland Security as "according to the Russian recipes" -- apparently referring to the use of the weak electric charge.
According to Wikipedia,
Spertzel held several positions in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases including Deputy for Research, Deputy Commander, and Chief of the Animal Assessment Division.
So the coverup continues, and the Wall Street Journal is actively participating. At USAMRIID, Spertzel's primary duty was to keep secret the biological warfare capabilities of the United States, and today's Op-Ed can only be seen in that light.
