Did you notice how quick Holt caught himself when he used the term "weapons facility"?

Some of the focus of this story needs to be on the fact that the US is engaging in biological warfare research and offensive weapons development.

Are there treaty's restricting those activities that US is subject to?

If not, why not?

For an example of stonewalling by Justice, see this footage of Gonazales testifying before Congress and being questioned by on the the anthrax issue. Perhaps about a year ago? - here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFwi0zF4a70

(Justice Department Oversight, Senate Judiciary Committee)

Here is an interesting quotes from Slimy Gonzales

"I know The Director is very committed to seeing some kind of resolution in the near future."

What did he mean by that? Framing up Hatfill, or framing up Ivins? Specter responded:

"The FBI has resisted telling us what's happening in that matter. We've had tremendous resistance from the Department every time we move into what you claim is an ongoing investigation or pending prosecution.

Now let me remind you of the commitment which your Department has made. I wrote to you, and I wrote to Deputy Attorney General McNulty, referencing the standard set forth in an extensive memorandum by the Congressional Research Authority, which concluded that, quote:

"The Department of Justice has been consistently obliged to submit to the Congressional Oversight, regardless of whether litigation is pending, and that the oversight authority of the Congress extend to documents respecting open or closed cases that include: Prosecutioral memoranda , FBI investigative reports, summaries of FBI interviews, memoranda, and correspondence prepared during the pendency of cases."

"And then I asked Mr. McNulty, quote, "I would like your specific agreement that the Department of Justice recognizes the oversight authority of this committee. And Mr. McNulty said, quote, "you have my agreement."

And let me remind you, Mr. Attorney General, that we have not had that agreement carried out, and I cite the anthrax investigation and the the Weldon matter as two matters that have attracted the attention of this committee, and would ask for your responses specifically."

The anthrax was military-grade, prepared using a top-secret recipe, most likely at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, or at the West Jefferson Ohio location, both of which are owned or managed by the large private contractor, Battelle Memorial Institute, that has previously partnered with the CIA and the DIA on biowarfare anthrax research, under the names Project Jefferson and Project Clear Vision, which was a secret program to mimic a Soviet dry powder anthrax bomblet.

Battelle Memorial is also a major subcontractor in the anthrax vaccine business, working for both Emergent Biosolutions and Vaxgen (now bought out by Emergent, aka Bioport), and a huge anthrax vaccine is up for "bid" in a few months, from the Department of Health and Human Services. As a result of the anthrax attacks and Project Bioshield, Battelle has pulled in over $1 billion in biowarfare "defense contracts" since 9/18 and 10/9.

The people who now control the FBI are the ones who made the decision to fire the lead team, replace it with Richard Lambert, drop the investigation into Dugway and Battelle, and instead focus on Hatfill, and now Ivins.

This is just straight up corruption with the FBI playing the coverup role. My guess is that the main aim was simply to boost biowarfare funding, and the linkage of the anthrax attacks to Saddam was just an opportunistic PR move by the White House Iraq Group, along with yellowcake, mushroom clouds, etc.

It is illegal for the U.S. to produce offensive bioweapons under the current biowarfare treaty, signed in 1972, but there is significant wiggle room.

The most blatant violation of international biowarfare treaties was the Soviet program, but more recently the U.S. is the leader. The main example is Project Jefferson, a collaboration between Battelle in Ohio and the Defense Intelligence Agency to produce a genetically engineered vaccine-resistant anthrax strain. USAMRIID at Detrick had turned down the request by the DIA to do this work because they believed it violated treaty obligatons - so DIA turned to Battelle, the #1 US biowarfare contractor, Battelle (they also manage numerous nuclear and coal-to-gas projects for the Department of Energy). This is all documented by reputable sources:

http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_10/Tucker

Here's the relevant quote:

It is known, for example, that the Soviet biological weapons program did extensive exploratory work on genetically engineered pathogens.[5] The Bush administration’s response to this concern has been to place a greater emphasis on “science-based threat assessment,” which involves the laboratory development and study of offensive biological weapons agents in order to guide the development of countermeasures. This approach is highly problematic, however, because it could undermine the ban on offensive development enshrined in the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and end up worsening the very dangers that the U.S. government seeks to reduce.

Now, it seems fairly evident that the anthrax used in the 9/18 and 10/9 attacks was not only the product of the U.S. biological warfare program, but was also produced in violation of U.S. treaties on biological warfare. That wasn't the genetically engineered stuff (Project Jefferson, DIA-Battelle), but rather Project Clear Vision (CIA-Battelle), that was intended to replicate a Soviet-made dry anthrax bomblet (including the anthrax) - done at Dugway Utah, apparently.

In this context, it is very interesting that Bush (Rumsfeld and Cheney, I mean) has fought long and hard against any expansion of international biological warfare treaties - and their stated reason?

"Protection of the intellectual property rights of the private corporations that partner with the federal government in biodefense."

Seriously - the anthrax weapon that was mailed in the letters was patented, you know, and of course patent protections are far more important than terrorism investigations, especially for this "Justice" Department.

Corporate terrorism - this could actually be the world's first case of a new phenomena.

Given everything that has happened over the last seven years -- not just with the anthrax attacks but with countless episodes of Government deceit and corruption -- it's astonishing (and more than a little disturbing) how many people are willing, even eager, to assume that the Government's accusations against Ivins are accurate even without seeing a shred of evidence to support those claims.

Which seems like reason enough for you to turn your laser-like attention to the questions surrounding the official government story of 9/11.