Anthrax And The Bush ‘War On Terror’: Why We Need An Investigation

Over on Firedoglake there is an informative and thought-provoking article on Anthrax And The Bush ‘War On Terror’: Why We Need An Investigation.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that the Bush administration -- including the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon -- all want the anthrax-killer case to quietly die with the person of Bruce Ivins. Yep, case closed, move along, folks. Right?

Well, excuse us. If you don't mind, we still have a few questions:

-- Was Ivins, as Marcy and Glenn Greenwald have wondered, a conscious part of the disinformation campaign to convince Congress and the public to go to war with Iraq?

-- Did Ivins -- if he really was the anthrax killer -- have any co-conspirators, as the evidence suggests?

-- Why was security at Fort Detrick, home of USAMRIID, probably the nation's most sensitive and secretive weapons laboratory, so lax as to allow this to happen?

-- And finally (and perhaps most significantly), was the mere fact of this kind of weaponized anthrax's existence at Fort Detrick another example of the Bush administration's flagrant violations of international law?

Truthdig - Reports - Microbiologist’s Suicide Demands a Full Probe of�’01 Anthrax Attacks

This is what I hope I would have said about the anthrax case the other morning if I had been awake.

Truthdig - Reports - Microbiologist’s Suicide Demands a Full Probe of�’01 Anthrax Attacks

Anthrax 'suspect' is found dead

This was kind of weird and interesting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/7536890.stm

It seemed sort of odd to me, somehow, that this anthrax case, which was out of the news for years, was coming back into the news right now during a presidential campaign. But maybe this is just some early morning hypervigilance on my part. The link to the longer LA Times story is here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax1-2008aug01,0,2864223.story