* DXer … if we knew what President Bush knew in February 2001, Amerithrax would be seen with entirely different eyes

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DXer …

if we knew what President Bush knew in February 2001,

Amerithrax would be seen with entirely different eyes

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Extracts from DXer’s comment to this post (see below) …

• The threat to use mailed anthrax was described to President Bush by the CIA in a PDB in early February 2001 that is still classified. See 911 Commission Report.
• In January 2001, a bail hearing was announced for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad/Vanguards of Conquest #2. A threat to use anthrax was immediately sent to those responsible for the detention and threatened deportation to Cairo. Bail was denied on October 5 and then the mailer rushed to mail the good stuff.
• The lawyer for the EIJ spiritual guide had announced in 1999 that Zawahiri intended to use anthrax to retaliate for the rendering and detention of senior EIJ leaders — and the plan was confirmed by the detained EIJ military leader (and another shura leader who was working for Egyptian intelligence services).
• The late January threat was sent by the same people who sent letter bombs to the people symbolically responsible for the WTC 1993 plotters.
• It was embarrassing to the Bush Administration because not only were they given express warning, but it is the former assistant of then White House Chief of Staff who the FBI suspects of accessing the biochemistry information relating to the concentration of anthrax using silica. See filing of defendant’s defense counsel.
• The factual question of the day relates to the culture medium used by Ivins, and why the FBI did not allege that the recipe of the culture medium he used in the lab supported the searches they did.

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* DXer … where are the missing Amerithrax documents from 2001-2002?

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The New York Times says the FBI’s anthrax case has “too many loose ends.” Find out where some of those looses ends might have originated in my novel CASE CLOSED. Sure it’s fiction, but many readers, including a highly respected member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, think my premise is actually “quite plausible.”

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DXer …

where are the missing Amerithrax documents from 2001-2002?

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* Additional FBI documents related to Amerithrax Investigation

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http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/amerithrax.htm

Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history.

The ensuing investigation by the FBI and its partners—code-named “Amerithrax”—has been one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement.

In August 2008, Department of Justice and FBI officials announced a breakthrough in the case and released documents and information showing that charges were about to be brought against Dr. Bruce Ivins, who took his own life before those charges could be filed. On February 19, 2010, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service formally concluded the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The Amerithrax Task Force—which consisted of roughly 25 to 30 full-time investigators from the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and other law enforcement agencies, as well as federal prosecutors from the District of Columbia and the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section—expended hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours on this case. Their efforts involved more than 10,000 witness interviews on six different continents, the execution of 80 searches, and the recovery of more than 6,000 items of potential evidence during the course of the investigation. The case involved the issuance of more than 5,750 grand jury subpoenas and the collection of 5,730 environmental samples from 60 site locations. In addition, new scientific methods were developed that ultimately led to the break in the case—methods that could have a far-reaching impact on future investigations.

This interim release of FBI files concerning the investigation consists of a total of 2,728 pages and 30 separate files. Additional releases will be made when the files have been processed under the guidelines of the Freedom of Information Act/Privacy.

As a supplement to this release, the U.S. Department of Justice has posted an Investigative Summary on its website atwww.usdoj.gov.

279A-WF-222936- BEI (Bruce E. Ivins) Sections (1,282 pages)

The seven sections identified as BEI (Dr. Bruce E. Ivins) are directly related to the investigative efforts and interviews involving Dr. Ivins. The sections include a review of Dr. Ivins’ personnel file, e-mails, police reports, and analysis of samples.

BEI Section 1 (2/2007 ) – (123 pages)
BEI Section 2 (4/2005) – (179 pages)
BEI Section 3 (8/2007) – (189 pages)
BEI Section 4 (11/2007) – (234 pages)
BEI Section 5 (2/2008)– (193 pages)
BEI Section 6 (4/2008) – (180 pages)
BEI Section 7 (8/2008) – (184 pages)

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID Sections (1,446 pages)

There are 22 sections listed as USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases), which pertain to investigative efforts and interviews related to USAMRIID and its personnel.

USAMRIID Section 1 (2/2005) – Interviews (75 pages)
USAMRIID Section 2 (6/2008) – Interviews (26 pages)
USAMRIID Section 3 (9/2006) – Biosurety Plan by DOD (1 page)
USAMRIID Section 3b (2/2006) – Interviews (102 pages)
USAMRIID Section 4 (3/2007) – Interviews and (7/2007) – Law Enforcement Operation Order of Environmental Survey (117 pages)
USAMRIID Section 5 (9/2006) – Interviews and Periodic case updates (75 pages)
USAMRIID Section 6 (4/2005) – Maryland DMV Records related to Dr. Ivins and additional interviews (46 pages)
USAMRIID Section 7 (5/2005) – Summary of Unauthorized Environmental Surveys by Dr. Ivins (108 pages)
USAMRIID Section 8 – (8/2005) – Interviews (151 pages)
USAMRIID Section 9 – (4/2003) – Interviews (41 pages)
USAMRIID Section 10 – (3/2003) – Interviews (44 pages)
USAMRIID Section 11 – (7/2003) – Interviews (33 pages)
USAMRIID Section 12 – (10/2003) – Interviews (52 pages)
USAMRIID Section 13 – (12/2003) – Interviews (53 pages)
USAMRIID Section 14 – (1/2004) – Interviews (66 pages)
USAMRIID Section 15 – (3/2004) – Interviews (49 pages)
USAMRIID Section 16 – (3/2004) – Interviews (107 pages)
USAMRIID Section 17 – (6/2004) – Interviews (63 pages)
USAMRIID Section 18 – (8/2004) – Interviews and Request for Documents from USAMRIID (10 pages)
USAMRIID Section 19 – (9/2004) – Interviews (40 pages)
USAMRIID Section 20 – (11/2004) – Interviews (127 pages)
USAMRIID Section 21 – (1/2007) – Interviews (51 pages)
USAMRIID Section 22 – (9/2004) – Interviews (9 pages)

* FBI Amerithrax documents made public on 2/29/10 and previously

CASE CLOSED by Lew Weinstein

is a novel which answers the question

… why did the FBI fail to solve the 2001 anthrax case?

Here’s what readers say about CASE CLOSED …

“CASE CLOSED takes headline events and weaves a credible scenario around the anthrax scare.”

“Lew Weinstein is a meticulous researcher and a determined storyteller.”

“This scary scenario is as close to truth as fiction can come.”

* buy CASE CLOSED at amazon *

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Amerithrax Documents
		Documents Made Public Under FOIA on Feb. 19, 2010 Amerithrax Investigative Summary Exhibit A: Letter to Brokaw Exhibit A: Letter to New York Post Exhibit B: Letter to Daschle Exhibit B: Letter to Leahy Exhibit C: Daschle & Leahy Envelopes Exhibit D: New York Post & Brokaw Envelopes Exhibit E: Flask of RMR-1029 Anthrax Exhibit F: Ivins Lab Notebook #4010, Page 74 Exhibit G: Analysis of Anthrax Sample Exhibit H: Ivins Lab Night Hour Chart 2001 Exhibit I: Ivins Lab Hour Chart Comparison Exhibit J: Page 404 of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Exhibit K: Ivins Hand Sketch #1 Exhibit L: Spore Plate With Typed Description Exhibit M: Ivins Hand Sketch #2 Documents Unsealed September 24, 2008 Group 1 Search Warrant 08-124-M-01 Search Warrant 08-125-M-01 Search Warrant 08-160-M-01 Search Warrant 08-430-M-01 application Search Warrant 08-443-M-01 Group 2 Search Warrant 08-489-M-01 Search Warrant 08-490-M-01 Search Warrant 08-491-M-01 Search Warrant 08-492-M-01 Search Warrant 08-493-M-01 Search Warrant 08-494-M-01 Search Warrant 08-495-M-01 Documents Unsealed August 6, 2008 Motion to Unseal Order to Unseal Search Warrant 07-524-M-01 Search Warrant 07-525-M-01 Search Warrant 07-526-M-01 Search Warrant 07-527-M-01 Search Warrant 07-528-M-01 Search Warrant 07-529-M-01 Search Warrant 08-082-M-01 Search Warrant 08-083-M-01 Search Warrant 08-084-M-01 Search Warrant 08-429-M-01 Search Warrant 08-430-M-01 Search Warrant 08-431-M-01 Search Warrant 08-432-M-01 Search Warrant 08-433-M-01 Search Warrant 08-496-M-01 Search Warrant 08-497-M-01