Is the FBI Dragging Its Feet? Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists 5 February 2002 For more than three months now the FBI has known that the perpetrator of the anthrax attacks is American. This conclusion must have been based on the perpetrator’s evident connection to the US biodefense program. In addition to this signpost, the perpetrator has left multiple, blatant clues, seemingly on purpose: second letters, addressed similarly to the anthrax letters and containing powder, sent to most (and possibly all) the anthrax... Read More
More Anthrax Shenanigans: Don�t Believe Everything You Read An Opinion/Editorial by Dr. Len Horowitz May 10, 2002 Anthrax is in the news again.(1,2) It may soon be back in the mail as well. Particularly if you, along with other concerned, but befuddled, Americans, fail to relay this warning and intelligence. On May 7, 2002, the New York Times contradicted dozens of earlier reports and expert testimonies that the strain of the mailed anthrax had been hyperweaponized.(3-5) Undermining his own credibility, science investigator William Broad... Read More
Pentagon Shifts Anthrax Vaccine to Civilian Uses By JAMES DAO with JUDITH MILLER NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON, June 28 – The Bush administration announced a new anthrax vaccination policy today, including plans to continue vaccinating some military personnel and to stockpile for civilian use a large part of all the anthrax vaccine being produced for the Pentagon. Under the new policy, which reverses an earlier plan to vaccinate all military personnel, the Pentagon intends in the next two weeks to begin vaccinating those who are expected to... Read More
An Open Letter and Question for FBI Director, Robert Mueller, from Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, Prepared for Broadcast on “Inside Out,” Hosted by Michael Levine on KRLA radio in Los Angeles December 17, 2001. Dear FBI Director Robert Mueller, I don’t know whether you have seen Sunday’s Washington Post(Dec. 16, 2001) article by authors Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt entitled “Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army’s Stocks: 5 Labs Can Trace Spores to Ft. Detrick,” in which a short list of your chief suspects is... Read More
By Guy Gugliotta and Allan Lengel Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, December 13, 2002; Page A22 The Justice Department says it did not intend to focus attention on former Army scientist Steven Hatfill by describing him as a “person of interest” in last year’s anthrax attacks, and in fact sought to shield him from unwarranted public scrutiny, according to department documents released yesterday. The department did, however, defend its right to have Hatfill fired from his job training first responders in a biodefense program... Read More
A Special Report on the Anthrax Mailings Expressly Prepared for Simultaneous Publication in The Spectrum and Media ByPass By Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.* On October 1, 2001-approximately two weeks before the first publicly announced anthrax mailing-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials received an urgent warning from this author.(1) Government investigators were directed to consider the growing anthrax fright as the planned response to military-style propaganda. The American news media’s coverage of anthrax, and... Read More
By Ian Thompson TRAVIS AFB — If it was any other vaccination, Air Force Reserve Master Sgt. Clarence McNamer figures he wouldn’t have had half the problems he did. But since his medical problems could relate to the controversial anthrax vaccine, McNamer, 49, has been through the wringer to first get his hair loss, sores, shaking and other problems treated and then get his medical insurance to pay for it. “It was like the book had not been written yet to diagnose an anthrax problem,” McNamer said. “I still don’t... Read More