Buzzflash has made a scary leap in its assumptions about the 9/11 anthrax attacks, but those assumptions may be right. Implication: Bruce Ivins, the fall guy and scapegoat, may have been the victim of a criminal conspiracy to protect the real authors of the 9/11 anthrax attacks. Certainly it is difficult to believe that the FBI believes its own flimsy case against Ivins.

There are other implications here about 9/11 itself, which no doubt Mark Karlin is contemplating. Quite a few dots are beginning to connect in ways that are difficult to miss.

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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/110#

Of Anthrax, Forged Letters to Launch Wars, the Failure to Prevent 9/11, Torture, Murder and Other High WH Crimes

Submitted by Mark on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 8:57am. EditorBlog

THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

Mark Karlin

Editor and Publisher

August 9, 2008

You'd have to be a terribly cautious and willfully blind person not to think that the Bush Administration was capable of orchestrating the Anthrax attacks. You'd almost have to be a fool.

Years after the anthrax attacks were aimed at Democratic senators who were necessary to pass the "spy on Americans" cynically named "Patriot Act," suddenly the latest "prime suspect" commits suicide without leaving a note or anything but the FBI to make claims about how they "got their man" after how many seasons of incompetence in their investigation had passed?

Anyone who doesn't believe that an administration that had the CIA (or perhaps Douglas Feith's "manufactured evidence" Defense Department office) forge and backdate a letter to link Saddam to Osama to help justify the war with Iraq is not capable of using army produced weapons grade anthrax, out of a Defense Department facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland...anyone who doesn't believe that an administration that forged Niger uranium documents to falsely link Saddam to a purchase that could facilitate a nuclear program that had been shuttered...anyone who doesn't believe that an administration that lied about knowing where WMDs were hidden in Iraq (as Rumsfeld and Cheney claimed), when those weapons didn't exist...well anyone who doesn't believe that such people who believe that they are "masters of the universe" and above the Constitution and the law would be concerned about "collateral damage" in a domestic anthrax attack is naive and incapable of understanding the heart of darkness that lurks within Cheney and his puppet in the White House. (George W. Bush ever in need of finding ways to prove his manhood through being indifferent to the deaths of others.)

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Alexander Cockburn recounts the history of the 9/11 anthrax attacks case here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08092008.html

He offers Glenn Greenwald high praise for taking on ABC News and Brian Ross. As far as I know, we STILL do not know the names of all those very interesting people who had advance knowledge of the 9/11 anthrax attacks and who used the bentonite story to try to pin blame for the attacks on Iraq and Saddam Hussein. We need to know those names, and everything about their political agenda. Some of those people may have been behind the attacks. Some of them may be planning more attacks.

The predominant image of Ivins that has come through the media so far is that of a decent, honorable, likable, gentle and intelligent guy, who has been viciously and unfairly maligned. The testimonials of his coworkers and associates have carried much more weight than the words of sketchy characters like Jean Duley. The more they try to smear him, the better he looks.

I keep waiting for the FBI to provide the evidence that they claim will convict Ivins. Where the hell is it?

From the State of New Jersey's website:

About Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners:

Battelle Ventures, L.P., a Princeton, N.J.-based venture fund, and its Knoxville, Tenn.-based affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners (IVP), have a combined $255 million under management for creating and accelerating the development of early-stage technology companies with breakthrough solutions to multiple marketplace problems. The funds enjoy unique relationships with the technology transfer offices of six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories and have established similar associations with a number of university tech transfer and commercialization departments.

Battelle Ventures was established in August 2003 with a sole limited partner – Columbus, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle), the world’s largest nonprofit independent research and development organization. Battelle manages/co-manages six National Laboratories for the U.S. DOE. IVP, launched in August 2005, is backed by Eastern Tennessee business leaders and works closely with regional research and entrepreneurial communities, giving the funds a strong presence in the Southeast. The $220-million Battelle Ventures fund and the $35-million IVP fund invest side by side in all deals.

The lead at Battelle Ventures is:

Morton Collins, Ph.D. (also of VGX Pharmaceuticals, i.e. cervical cancer vaccine)

Dr. Collins currently is a General Partner of Battelle Ventures and Innovations Valley Partners. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of Delaware and his Master of Arts and Doctorate Degrees in Engineering from Princeton University... In August of 2003 Dr. Collins became the Managing Partner of Battelle Ventures which he founded. Battelle Ventures is an early-stage high-technology venture firm focused on technologies developed at Battelle Memorial Institute and the National Laboratories managed by Battelle for the Department of Energy.

From the Colombus Business Wire

http://www.battelleventures.com/PDF%20Docs/Columbus_9_19_03.pdf

Thus, it appears that Battelle Ventures was founded in 2003 precisely to take advantage of the explosion in biodefense contracting that resulted from the anthrax attacks themselves. Whether or not they had control of that office space and location before 9/18 and 10/9 is unclear. There are certainly a wide variety of biotech companies in that area, however. Wonder if the FBI went and searched their labs?

Yes, that's the same Battelle that was the winner of the 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry award:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS191790+24-Jun-2008+PRN20080624

No offense to LWM, but FWIW, I have the same reaction to use of casual terms like "nutbar", though I'm not too precious to occasionally use them in casual everyday conversation.

I also have exactly the same antipathy for the term "whiner". Because it's too close to home? Could be, but that's for others to judge. ;)

No, it's because such terms are too loaded and pejorative in connotation; they reveal more about the mind-set of the user than the referent they purport to denote.