"Scientists dispute FBI’s findings in decade-old anthrax case" October 10, 2011|By Scott Shane and William J. Broad, New York Times
NEW YORK - A decade after wisps of anthrax sent through the mail killed five people, sickened 17 others, and terrorized the nation, biologists and chemists still disagree on whether federal investigators got the right man and whether the FBI’s long inquiry brushed aside important clues.
Now, three scientists argue that distinctive chemicals found in the dried anthrax spores - including the unexpected presence of tin - point to a high degree of manufacturing skill, contrary to federal reassurances that the attack germs were unsophisticated. The scientists make their case in a coming issue of the Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense....
The new paper raises the prospect - for the first time in a serious scientific forum - that the Army biodefense expert identified by the FBI as the perpetrator, Bruce E. Ivins, had help in obtaining his germ weapons or conceivably was innocent of the crime. Both the chairwoman of a National Academy of Science panel that spent a year and a half reviewing the FBI’s scientific work and the director of a new review by the Government Accountability Office said the paper raised important questions that should be addressed....
And the government has done.... nothing.
In interviews, the three authors said their analysis suggested that the FBI might have pursued the wrong suspect and that the case should be reopened. Their position may embolden calls for a national commission to investigate the first major bioterrorism attack in US history.
But....
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Related: AmeriKan Media Endorses Anthrax Attack Cover-Up
Yeah, they haven't looked into it, either. Big surprise.
Maybe I can help solve the case:
"It wasn't Muslims who carried out a terror campaign mailing letters containing anthrax spores that had their electrostatic charge altered so that they would disperse more readily, anthrax that was traced to the weapons grade Ames strain originating at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, neither was it the FBI's final "suspect" Roman Catholic Bruce Ivins, who, unlike the true perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, had no motive to target news media and Opposition Senators and thereby scare them into uncritical acceptance of the "Arab hijackers" conspiracy theory. Ivins died of an overdose and alleged "suicide" in July 2008 after the FBI gave up attempting to pin the blame on Steven Hatfill because there was not a scintilla of evidence against him; a logical suspect is Philip M. Zack who left Fort Detrick under a cloud in December 1991 after having headed a clique calling itself the "Camel Club" that was racially harassing Egyptian-born Dr. Ayaad Assaad. Zack was found by a 1992 inquiry to have been caught on surveillance camera being let into a Fort Detrick lab building at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992 apparently by Dr. Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack. The inquiry also found someone had been in a lab late at night secretly conducting unauthorised research, evidently on anthrax believed to include the Ames strain. Nearly ten years on, during the week between 9/11 and the commencement of the anthrax campaign, the FBI received an anonymous letter attempting to frame Dr. Assaad as a "bioterrorist". The anthrax letters seemed contrived so as to appear to have been written by a Muslim, and a New York Times writer told of a "Mr. Z." who failed some FBI polygraph tests and was once caught with a girlfriend at Fort Detrick "surrounded only by blushing germs"."
Related: US settles anthrax lawsuit for $2.5m
A $mall price to pay for a pack of lies in service to certain agendas, no?
And now they want to experiment with it on children?
And what do you mean the Army can't find the missing anthrax?
You FBI guys get all that?
"FBI sought to monitor cellphones, firm says; But software use request rebuffed" December 16, 2011|By Richard Lardner, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said yesterday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed.
So we are told.
The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents neither sought nor obtained any information from the company, Carrier IQ.
Meaning Mueller LIED TO CONGRESS!!
Isn't that a CRIME?!
Related: Obama Wants to Read Your E-Mail
Seems to be a PATTERN with him!
The company’s statement will likely inflame suspicion about the monitoring tool and its usefulness to the US government.
Translation: it's already in use.
Andrew Coward, vice president of marketing for Carrier IQ of Mountain View, Calif., said the FBI is the only law enforcement agency that has contacted the company. Coward would not say when, why, or how often the FBI has reached out to Carrier IQ, but he said the company is not working with the bureau. “There is no relationship between us and the FBI,’’ Coward said.
During an oversight hearing Wednesday, Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI “neither sought nor obtained any information from Carrier IQ in any one of our investigations.’’ Mueller was responding to a question by Senator Al Franken, Democrat from Minnesota and chairman of the committee’s privacy and technology panel, who has said collecting personal information from people’s cellphones could violate federal law.
It's become pretty clear now that this government thinks it is above the law. Goes for both branches, both parties, with a corporate court as arbiter.
FBI spokesman Michael Kortan said in an e-mail that the bureau’s technical staff “communicates routinely with many technology companies, including Carrier IQ, relative to new and emerging technologies and capabilities.’’
Oh, so THEY HAVE CONTACTED OTHERS and we JUST DON'T KNOW WHO!!
The company’s technology is designed as a diagnostic tool that gives mobile telephone companies the ability to gather and analyze information that helps them improve the performance of devices that operate on their networks, Carrier IQ said. The software is typically installed by the phone company or the manufacturer of the handset.
Most cellphone users were unaware the company or its software existed until last month when a security researcher, Trevor Eckhart, posted online a video he made showing how keystrokes and messages from his smartphone were logged by the Carrier IQ software.
Eckhart said the software is hard to detect and difficult to turn off.
Americans think nothing of it because they love their gizmos.
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Related: FBI Thinks Frame-Ups Are Funny
Also see: FBI Lied to Spy
Nooooooo! They would never do that!! They love you, Americans! And we love them -- in a way.
They missed something:
"Search is on for missing California FBI agent" Associated Press, May 14, 2012
BURBANK, Calif. - Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing FBI agent who was said to be despondent and possibly armed.
Why can't you guys just track him down by cellphone? And what did this guy know or see that required him to be murdered?
About 100 FBI agents, 40 sheriff’s department rescuers, and a dozen local police officers participated in the search for Los Angeles-based Special Agent Stephen Ivens. He was described as a hiking and running enthusiast.
Hmmh. A different Ivens.
FBI Special Agent Steve Gomez said dogs had tracked Ivens toward the
Verdugo Mountains, east of Burbank, and searchers fanned out throughout
Los Angeles County.
Ivens was distraught and authorities fear he may have harmed himself, according to KABC-TV. He has no history of disciplinary action on the job, according to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!
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And I never saw another word in my printed paper.
Update: Search in Verdugo Mountains for missing FBI agent is stopped
Still missing as far as I know.
