Frederick News Post column proclaims Ivins’ innocence

Katherine Heerbrandt
Frederick News Post
Saturday, Aug 30, 2008

When Norm Covert, a conservative former Fort Detrick public affairs officer, and attorney Barry Kissin, liberal activist opposing Detrick’s biolab expansion, agree that Bruce Ivins was not the anthrax killer, either the world’s spinning off its axis, or the truth is staring us so hard in the face we’d have to be blind to miss it.
Covert’s piece this week in thetentacle.com establishes what many in our community, including scientists and support staff at USAMRIID, past and present, know: Bruce Ivins had nothing to do with preparing or sending the anthrax letters. –

In a recent letter to the FNP editor, Amanda Lane speaks for many who knew him: “I want to shout from the mountain tops that Bruce was the kind of man we look up to … He was a decorated scientist and the humblest of men who didn’t use his title as a status symbol. He picked up a mop or emptied the trash without a moment’s hesitation. If he thought you were having a bad day he would offer candy or a catchy tune to cheer you up. If someone had to stay late to accomplish a task, Bruce would work with you so that the task would get completed faster.”

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Covert echoes what is widely reported by reputable scientists. The anthrax in the mailings, he says, was “highly bred, weapons-grade … with a silica coating and a slight electrical charge so that each particle repelled the other … each particle no more than five microns.” Ivins had neither the expertise nor the equipment to create such a sophisticated form of anthrax.

But if not Ivins, then who or what?

“It’s the elephant in the room nobody’s talking about,” Kissin says.

Since Nixon terminated the offensive weapons program at Detrick in 1969, there has been only one corporation in our country that operates laboratories where anthrax is weaponized: Battelle Memorial Laboratories, the corporation that does the biolab work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

In December 2001, FBI Director Mueller announced that the Battelle-operated labs in West Jefferson, Ohio and at Dugway had been “searched,” and that there were NO suspects in those labs.

The FBI has not mentioned Battelle since.

New York Times science writer William Broad covered the subject in his 2002 book “Germs, Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War.” According to Broad, Projects Jefferson and Clear Vision, begun in the late ’90s were ongoing secret anthrax weaponization projects. Project Clear Vision was managed by the CIA at the Battelle labs in West Jefferson, Ohio. Project Jefferson was managed by the DIA at the Battelle-operated labs at Dugway.

Kissin and writer Sheila Casey thread this information together in a recently published article in the Rock Creek Free Press, http://www.rockcreekfreepress.com/CreekV2No9-Web.pdf, to conclude that the case against Ivins is nothing but a flimsy cover-up of the secret workings of these anthrax weaponization projects.

How do Americans even begin to confront the reality that the only bioattack in our history came from an American military/intelligence lab? An attack we were told made the massive expansion of biolabs at Detrick and across the country necessary.

And guess who’s been hired for $750 million to manage and operate the first new biolab facilities at Detrick that are about to open?

Battelle Memorial Laboratories.

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7 Responses to “Frederick News Post column proclaims Ivins’ innocence”

1. Sephyra Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

   mmm…
   death.

2. nader paul kucinich gravel Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

   Ivins = patsy.

   0 doubt.

3. MAR Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 1:14 am

   People born into lies and raised on more lies hate the truth, this is why religious people hate science, this is why they go after schools…in this country and around the world, this is why newspapers get away with feeding them lies…because it is easier for them to swallow, the same for news mediums of all sorts. KKKristians are lie suckers, they feed at the breast of lies…then after that little meal they eat the flesh of jesus and then drink his blood. And you don’t think there is something wrong with these ‘people’. It’s called critical thinking…it’s gone, these people will have none of it, it’s their enemy. Is that the kind of world you want to live in? Why is it that if religion is so wonderful all the trouble in the world…mass killings, bombings, are done by these homicidial nuts. NEXT ON THE AGENDA: ARMAGEDDON, THE MASS KILLING OF US ALL! You fucking morons!

4. veritas Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 9:38 am

   This article is factually incorrect. This was not the first bio attack on U.S. soil.

   The first occured in the 1970s in Washington state by the followers of bagwan rahjnishi. Those deranged individuals used mass poisoning of public salad bars with salmonella in an attempt to throw a county election by sickening enough voters to skew poll numbers in favor of group members. The group was attempting to gain control of county government where their compound was located.

   Dozens of people became ill and the group medical official, a nurse, was convicted of spear heading the bio warfare campaign against American citizens. she was never jailed, and fled the country.

5. Sheila Casey Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 11:47 am

   They must be running out of tin foil hats

   When sharp eyed Americans pointed out that Oswald could not possibly have been JFK’s killer, a new epithet came into the English language: conspiracy theorist. Since then, virtually all sharp-eyed, sharp-witted people have been demonized by the MSM as tin-foil hatters: malodorous individuals livng on the margins of society and seething with anger about it.

   Meanwhile, the complacent and oblivious, who are convinced (because their TV set told them so) that their government would never lie to them, are praised as being perfect citizens and much too smart to fall for all that conspiracy crap.

   But now it seems that there may not be enough tin foil hats to go around. As the FBI proudly holds up the corpse of Fort Detrick scientist Bruce Ivins, proclaiming the anthrax case closed, brows are furrowing all across America. The story is just too ludicrous…

   read the rest at http://www.sheilacasey.com/anthrax-attacks/

6. ADK Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 5:11 pm

   I totally agree with MAR , armegeddon

7. FLAWED ARGUMENT Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 8:26 pm

   America will never heal from 9/11

   It is a boil on your asses.

   And it needs lanced.