Proof of Bush Admin 9/11 Foreknowledge + Genetic Proof of Anthrax Conspiracy

September 11th Foreknowledge:

t r u t h o u t | 05.17.special edition

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney | Terrorist Warnings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.17AA.Mckinney.Bush.NU.htm

Senate Leader Daschle | Briefing; Call For Action
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.17AA.Daschle.Bush.NU.htm

William Rivers Pitt | The Terrorists Flew and Bush Knew
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.17A.WRP.Bush.NU.htm

Gephardt on Reports of Bush Knowledge of Al Queda Hijackings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.17B.Gephardt.Bush.NU.htm

Lawmakers Push for Hearings on Warning Given to Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.17C.Pols.911.Probe.htm

CBS News | Bush Knew Of Hijack Threat
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.17D.CBS.Bush.NU.htm

William Rivers Pitt | Hell to Pay, Part Four
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.15A.WRP.Hell.5.htm

William Rivers Pitt | Hell to Pay, Part Three
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.20A.Hell.2.Pay.htm

William Rivers Pitt | Hell to Pay, Part Two
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.19D.Hell.2.Pay.htm

William Rivers Pitt | Hell to Pay, Part One
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.18A.Hell.2.Pay.htm

More links:

From the Wilderness
http://www.copvcia.com

Questions, questions
http://www.questionsquestions.net

Centre for Research on Globalization
http://www.globalresearch.ca

The Emperor's New Clothes
http://www.tenc.net

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Anthrax attacks:

FBI cover-up and the New York Times whitewash
By Patrick Martin

15 May 2002

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/anth-m15.shtml

A new genetic analysis of the anthrax used in last fall's terrorist attacks
has pinpointed the source as the US government's own germ warfare program.
This finding explodes the pretense, long maintained by the Bush
administration and parroted by the media, that little is known in the
investigation into the attacks, which killed five people and disrupted the
lives of millions.

As few as 20 scientists may have had the combination of technical knowledge
and access to secret anthrax stocks-maintained illegally by the US
government in violation of international treaty obligations-required to
perpetrate the attacks. Yet the FBI continues to claim that it has made no
progress in the investigation and that no suspects are being actively
targeted.

This cover-up has a clear political motivation: either the perpetrator is an
individual with powerful friends in high places in the Bush administration,
whose influence is stalling the probe, or the perpetrator is actually a US
government agency-in which case the anthrax mailings to two top Senate
Democrats constitute an attempted political coup against the official
opposition party.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee May 8, FBI Director
Robert Mueller relegated the anthrax probe to a single paragraph. But
Mueller was already in possession of the results of the genetic analysis,
conducted by geneticists Timothy Read and Clare Fraser of The Institute for
Genomic Research (TIGR) and Paul Keim of Northern Arizona University. The
study was delivered to the FBI two weeks ago, but held back from publication
in the journal Science until Thursday, May 9, the day after Mueller's
appearance before the congressional committee.

The study confirms, on the basis of DNA analysis, what has been widely
suspected: the anthrax spores mailed to three media outlets and the offices
of two Senate Democrats, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, were derived
genetically from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the center of US germ warfare
experimentation.

The three scientists suggest that new, more detailed genetic comparisons may
narrow down the source of the anthrax spores to a just one of the 15 to 20
government and private laboratories involved in work on the Ames strain of
anthrax. All derive their stocks of the deadly bacteria from Fort Detrick.

Moreover, by measuring minute differences due to mutation in the genetic
structure of the mailed spores, compared to spores that never left Fort
Detrick, it should be possible to determine how long ago the anthrax used in
the terrorist letters left the US government facility. This would aid the
investigation in honing in on the source of the attacks.

While the genetic evidence lays out a virtual blueprint for the
investigation into the anthrax attacks, there are more accounts of
foot-dragging by the US government. ABC News reported April 4 that US
military and intelligence agencies have refused to provide the FBI with a
full listing of the secret facilities and employees working on anthrax
projects. The Los Angeles Times, in an article April 21, cited criticism by
scientists of an FBI email sent to the 32,000 members of the American
Society for Microbiology three months after the attacks, seeking cooperation
in the probe. "They wonder why the FBI outreach came so late, and so
broadly, when the number of scientists with expertise and access to anthrax
materials is probably closer to 200," the newspaper said.

Mystification by the New York Times

Perhaps the most politically significant response to the new study came in
the form of an editorial in the New York Times May 11, headlined, "The
Deepening Anthrax Mystery." Published in the leading US newspaper, this
commentary deliberately distorts the evidence brought to light so far, in
order to cover up for the FBI's stalling on the probe. It is a matter not so
much of "mystery" as of mystification.
The editorial cites the progress made by the genetic researchers, but adds,
"for now the goal of identifying where the anthrax came from and who might
have sent it through the mails remains as elusive as ever." But as the
Washington Post wrote, in its news article on the latest genetic analysis:
"it is now indisputable the mailed microbes are direct descendants of the
germs developed at Fort Detrick."
In other words, the first question, where the anthrax came from, has been
definitively answered. The attack on two leading Democratic senators used
biological warfare material from American military stockpiles, a fact of
profound political significance.

The New York Times editorial claims, "the universe of potential suspects
seems to be growing. Although investigators once hoped to narrow the list to
a few dozen suspects or less, lately they seem to be acknowledging that
hundreds or even thousands of individuals, in this country and abroad, are
probably capable of making the substance that was mailed, provided they
could gain access to the needed germs."
On the contrary, the genetic analysis has already made it possible to narrow
down the number of possible targets to a relatively small number, according
to scientists knowledgeable in the field. Biological warfare expert Steven
Block of Stanford University told the Dallas Morning News, in an interview
published April 1, that no more than 250 people in the US had the knowledge
required to make the attacks. Another expert, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg of the
Federation of American Scientists, has put the number at no more than 20,
when factors like access to classified information and germ warfare
materials are considered.
Block suggested a political reason for the FBI's delaying the investigation.
The perpetrators of the attack "either had to have information from the
United States or maybe they were the United States," he said. The FBI also
might be holding back "because the person that's involved with it may have
secret information that the United States government would not like to have
divulged."

Cramming even more disinformation into a few paragraphs, the Times editorial
concludes: "The FBI remains convinced that the attacks were carried out by
an American with scientific training, not by Al Qaeda or a rogue nation, but
critics fear the bureau is so wedded to this theory that it has become blind
to other possibilities."
Here the Times echoes the campaign being waged by the Wall Street Journal,
the leading organ for the US extreme right, whose answer to every social,
political and foreign policy problem is the same: launch an American war
against Iraq. For obvious political reasons the Journal has vehemently
opposed suggestions that the anthrax attacks were launched by right-wing
elements within the United States, preferring to blame Iraq despite the lack
of any evidence.

The Times editorial directly contradicts its own reporting on the anthrax
investigation. Only two months ago, on February 25, a Times article noted:
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified a 'short list' of 18 to
20 people who had the means, opportunity and possible motive to have sent
the anthrax-laden letters last fall, law enforcement officials said.

"Officials said the list was compiled mostly through tips from scientists
and an analysis by investigators of people with skills to have made the
highly concentrated anthrax spores that killed five people and prompted
doctors to prescribe antibiotic treatment for 30,000 people."

The February 25 article noted the widely reported statement of White House
press spokesman Ari Fleischer, who denied claims that the FBI had identified
a chief suspect, saying, "unfortunately, there are still several suspects."
The FBI, he said, has not "narrowed it down to just one." This White House
statement clearly implied that, far from a list of thousands of potential
suspects, federal investigators were focused on a core group of suspects.
Yet two months later, the Times claims "the universe of potential suspects
appears to be growing."

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/anth-m15.shtml

See Also:

FBI knows anthrax mailer but won't make an arrest, US scientist charges
[25 February 2002]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/anth-f25.shtml

US anthrax attackers aimed to assassinate Democratic leaders; media silent
on military links
[23 January 2002]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/anth-j23.shtml

US anthrax attacks linked to army biological weapons plant
[28 December 2001]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/anth-d28.shtml