Tag: ft detrick
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fbi lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue
from mcclatchy: Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder’s potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer… The apparent failure of the FBI to…
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Warwhores: Intel Porn & Weapon Ads
Pentagon reopens probe of 100s of employees w/child porn // Veterans sue CIA, Army for experiments at Detrick, Edgewood // Weapon ads on DC Metro just part of the scenery // Obama prepares largest arms sale ever … to Saudi Arabia
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8/12 newspurge: how you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight?
9/11 updates: german mosque used by 9/11 attackers shut down* video: c-span tries & fails to cover the facts of 9/11* biowars/envirohealth: scientists say govt gulf oil spill report ‘ludicrous’* disappearing oil & gulf seafood: passing the sniff test?* smoke cloud covers moscow – authorities warn of radioactive cloud* russia declares state of emergency in…
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ft detrick inventory turns up 9,220 more vials of pathogens
from washington post: An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick’s infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn’t know whether dangerous toxins were missing. After four months of searching about 335 freezers and refrigerators at the U.S. Army…
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fort detrick disease samples may be missing
from frederick news-post: Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. As first reported in today’s edition of The Frederick News-Post by columnist Katherine Heerbrandt, the investigators are from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division unit at Fort Meade. Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade,…
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daily dose of terror: drills, darpa, sims & dew
darpa sims, directed energy weapons darpa wants sim to ‘resurrect’ battlefield traumafrom danger room: Far-off commanders can already watch battles unfold, thanks to spy drones, streaming video overhead. They can read after-action reports, to learn how troops on the ground experienced the fight. But those officers don’t have detailed, digitally-animated simulations, merging all that info…
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envirohealth: biodefense, flying syringes & vaccine protests
huge new biodefense lab is dedicated at ft detrick from washington post: The Department of Homeland Security dedicated a massive biodefense laboratory in Frederick yesterday, moving toward the facility’s opening despite questions raised about the risks of deadly pathogens to be studied there. When the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Fort Detrick is…
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anthrax updates: ivins, labs & hatfill’s predictive programming
frederick news post column proclaims ivins’ innocencefrom 9/11 blogger: Terrific column in the Frederick News-Post today about the flimsiness of the govt case against Ivins. Please email Katherine Heerbrandt thanking her for naming the “elephant on the grassy knoll.” Note that contractor Battelle, who received this contract for $750 million, is a tax-exempt organization. No…
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anthrax updates: leahy, boyle, grassley, coverups & 2 groups
leahy not satisfied with the anthrax investigationfrom empty wheel: The biggest news from a blogger chat with Patrick Leahy at the DNC today came in response to a question I threw out as we adjourned – about whether or not he was convinced with the FBI’s case in the anthrax case. We had this exchange:…
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massive anthrax updates: the case is far from closed
hair samples in anthrax case don’t match*flashback: on 9/11 high govt official advises some reporters to take anthrax antibiotic cipro’*dr ivins, anthrax & why I don’t believe the fbi*project anthrax & the coverup: (part5): operation jefferson, roots of the plot, hauer, patrick, hatfill, ivins & human experimentation*anthrax follies & the bizarro effect*lawyers skeptical fbi could…
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‘justice’ department falsely claims anthrax case is closed
authorities declare 2001 anthrax attack case solved from dpa: The US Justice Department Wednesday said it was convinced that a top government scientist who committed suicide last week was the sole person responsible for the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks that terrified the nation. Bruce Ivins was set to be indicted last week for the anthrax-laced…
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the supposed lone anthrax gunman supposedly suicided
from ap: Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and severely rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of an Army scientist’s warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin, officials said Friday. The brilliant but troubled scientist committed suicide this week before prosecutors could charge him with murder. The sudden naming of…
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US to pay hatfill $5.8m in anthrax op settlement
from raw replay: NBC’s Pete Williams reported that the U.S. Government has agreed to pay Steven Hatfill about $5.8 million in the case of the anthrax attacks that happened soon after 9/11. Hatfill had been declared “a person of interest” in the attacks. Williams said that it is “safe to assume” that Hatfill is no…