Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out

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Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.

Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.

"After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration tried to ram the USA PATRIOT Act through Congress," Boyle said in a radio interview with Austin-based talk-show host Alex Jones. "That would have set up a police state.

"Senators Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)

were holding it up because they realized what this would lead to. The

first draft of the PATRIOT Act would have suspended the writ of habeas

corpus [which protects citizens from unlawful imprisonment and

guarantees due process of law]. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,

come these anthrax attacks."

"At the time I myself did not know precisely what was going on, either

with respect to September 11 or the anthrax attacks, but then the New

York Times revealed the technology behind the letter to Senator

Daschle. [The anthrax used was] a trillion spores per gram, [refined

with] special electro-static treatment. This is superweapons-grade

anthrax that even the United States government, in its openly

proclaimed programs, had never developed before. So it was obvious to

me that this was from a U.S. government lab. There is nowhere else you

could have gotten that."

Boyle's assessment was based on his years of expertise regarding

America's bioweapons programs. He was responsible for drafting the

Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was passed

unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President

George H.W. Bush.

After realizing that the anthrax attacks looked like a domestic job,

Boyle called a high-level official in the FBI who deals with terrorism

and counterterrorism, Marion "Spike" Bowman. Boyle and Bowman had met

at a terrorism conference at the University of Michigan Law School.

Boyle told Bowman that the only people who would have the capability to

carry out the attacks were individuals working on U.S. government

anthrax programs with access to a high-level biosafety lab. Boyle gave

Bowman a full list of names of scientists, contractors and labs

conducting anthrax work for the U.S. government and military.

Bowman then informed Boyle that the FBI was working with Fort Detrick

on the matter. Boyle expressed his view that Fort Detrick could be the

main problem. As widely reported in 2002 publications, notably the New

Scientist, the anthrax strain used in the attacks was officially

assessed as "military grade."

"Soon after I informed Bowman of this information, the FBI authorized

the destruction of the Ames cultural anthrax database," the professor

said. The Ames strain turned out to be the same strain as the spores

used in the attacks.

The alleged destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames,

Iowa, from which the Fort Detrick lab got its pathogens, was blatant

destruction of evidence. It meant that there was no way of finding out

which strain was sent to whom to develop the larger breed of anthrax

used in the attacks. The trail of genetic evidence would have led

directly back to a secret government biowarfare program.

"Clearly, for the FBI to have authorized this was obstruction of

justice, a federal crime," said Boyle. "That collection should have

been preserved and protected as evidence. That's the DNA, the

fingerprints right there. It later came out, of course, that this was

Ames strain anthrax that was behind the Daschle and Leahy letters."

At that point, recounted Boyle, it became very clear to him that there

was a coverup underway. He later discovered, while reading David Ray

Griffin's book on the 9/11 attacks, The New Pearl Harbor, that Bowman

was the same FBI agent who allegedly sabotaged the FISA warrant for

access to [convicted co-conspirator] Zacharias Moussaoui's computer

prior to 9/11. Moussaoui's computer contained information that could

have helped prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center and the

Pentagon.

In 2003, Bowman was promoted and given the Presidential Rank Award by

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a

letter to Mueller, chastising the organization for granting such an

honor to an agent who had so obviously compromised America's security.

During the anthrax scare, the House of Representatives was officially

shut down for the first time in the history of the republic. Once

opposition from Leahy and Daschle evaporated in the wake of the

attempts on their lives, the USA PATRIOT Act was rammed through.

Testimony by Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most

members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even

reading it.

"They were going to move to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which is

all that really separates us from a police state," Boyle said. "And

that is what they have done now with respect to enemy combatants [in

the Military Commissions Act of 2006]." Boyle added that lawmakers are

now arguing that Amendment XIV, which guarantees due process of law to

all Americans, does not mean what it has been taken to mean and that,

under the Military Commissions Act, any U.S. citizen can be stripped of

citizenship and be labeled an enemy combatant.

Continued Boyle: "In other words, they have taken the position that at

some point in time, if they want to, they can unilaterally round up

United States native-born citizens, as they did for Japanese-Americans

in World War II, and stick us into concentration camps." Boyle asserted

that top officials, such as White House legal advisor John Yoo and

former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith (now a professor at

Harvard Law School), are pushing for the legalization of torture as

well.

"The Nazis did the exact same thing," said Boyle. "They had their

lawyers infiltrating law schools. Carl Schmidt was the worst, and he

was the mentor to Leo Strauss, the [ideological] founder of the

neoconservatives. So the same phenomenon that started in Nazi Germany

is happening here, and I exaggerate not. We could all be tortured; we

could all be treated this way."

Boyle stressed that it is vital to keep up the pressure on Senator

Leahy, who now chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving him

subpoena power. Since Leahy was himself a target, he may have

sufficient motivation to get to the bottom of the attacks. The FBI and

the Justice Department have so far refused full disclosure to Congress.

In addition to his credentials as a government advisor, Boyle also

holds a doctorate of law magna cum laude and a Ph.D. in political

science, both from Harvard University. He teaches international law at

the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Boyle also served on

the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-92) and

represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.

Boyle alleged that due to his activities as a lawyer, he was

interrogated by an agent from the CIA/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in

the summer of 2004. The agent tried to recruit him as an informant to

provide the FBI with information on his Arab and Muslim clients. When

he refused, according to Boyle, the FBI placed him on the government's

terrorism watch lists.

Too bad they ( terrorists in the U. S. defense labs ) didn't burn the anthrax instead of just the records of the incriminating evidence chains..

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This was extortion perpetrated upon the spineless congress.

And the rest of any of us. Instead of ripping the lid off of our forbidden weapons program we all became potential 'terrorist' victims.

Unless we all get the high Xray cleansing the 'public servants' get to protect them. And their underground cities to live in.