The anthrax lab scandal came to light in 2015 and involves Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army high-security facility that is the "leading test center for Chemical and Biological Defense". Dugway sent live anthrax samples to at least 194 lab facilities in all 50 states and at least 9 other countries. These samples were supposed to be inert reference samples of dead anthrax. Instead Dugway sent samples of anthrax that were still alive and very dangerous.
From the above-linked Forbes article we get a good summary of how the SNAFU happened:
First, they failed to irradiate the anthrax spores adequately to inactivate them. Second, their tests to confirm that the anthrax was dead were inadequate.
The backdrop of the recent Dugway lab scandal
Anyone who is familiar with the history of biological and chemical weapons attacks in America post-9/11 must immediately wonder how the hell it was possible for Dugway to so badly err in sending live anthrax to virtually every other bio-warfare lab in the world so soon after the 2001 anthrax letter attacks. The lab security and protocols at Dugway and other U.S. labs should have been markedly increased after the findings of the Amerithrax investigation which concluded that Dr. Bruce Ivins, an anthrax researcher at USAMRIID, obtained the spores used in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks from the U.S. government's own stocks.
Of course, in reality, Dr. Ivins was a patsy and the truth is actually much more alarming. For a good concise refresher on the events of the 2001 anthrax attacks watch Robbie Martin's American Anthrax v1.5. which summarizes what happened in about 36 minutes. I would also highly recommend Dr. Graeme MacQueen's The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy which very persuasively argues that the anthrax letters that followed 9/11 were sent by a group of U.S. military and/or intelligence insiders. In either case, if it really was Dr. Ivins or a group of insiders in the military and intelligence industrial complex, the security at every bio-warfare lab post-9/11 obviously should've been redoubled and redoubled again.
The security of the bio-warfare lab rooms at USAMRIID was a mess back in 2001 as exposed by researcher Lew Weinstein in documents he has uncovered that reveal that there were unidentified people who had access to the lab rooms where USAMRIID says that anthrax spores used in the 2001 attacks came from. There's much more on this topic on Weinstein's site and elsewhere about poor labeling and paperwork at USAMRIID and foreign nationals also being granted access to the lab rooms where anthrax was stored. Security and protocols were exposed as being woefully inadequate back in 2001. It should've been the absolute top priority post-9/11 for every lab handling anthrax samples or any other infectious agent.
The ever-increasing total of labs who were sent live anthrax
Another troubling aspect of the anthrax lab scandal at Dugway is that the truth about the extent of the malfeasance only came out after an ever-increasing tally of labs who were sent live anthrax was reported. A timeline of the reportage here is instructive:
2015-05-28 - 9 labs sent live anthrax
2015-06-01 - 28 labs sent live anthrax
2015-06-03 - 51 labs sent live anthrax
2015-07-23 - 86 labs sent live anthrax
2016-01-15 - 192 labs sent live anthrax
Another anthrax scandal reported on in 2014 at the CDC
The news of live anthrax being sent to hundreds of labs came on the heels of reports in 2014 that at least 86 workers at anthrax testing facilities in the U.S. had been exposed to anthrax. The head of the CDC anthrax lab was forced to resign after that scandal broke along with other security breaches including:
*Anthrax being found in an unmarked refrigerator
*Forgotten smallpox samples being discovered at an FDA lab
*Bird flu being mistakenly cross-contaminated with a highly pathogenic strain and being sent to another lab
*Live smallpox being found in vials marked as safe
Reflecting on the anthrax timeline
Again, all of these security issues at the CDC happened about a year before the news started to trickle out about live anthrax being sent from Dugway to at least 194 labs. It leads me to wonder about what other damaging, scandalous information these labs might still be suppressing. It also leads me to wonder how it is possible that not one but two high-security bio-warfare labs both were embroiled in huge security scandals at their labs that both involved sending extremely dangerous agents in error to other labs during the same period of time. And again all of this is against the back drop of weaponized anthrax, one of those infamous Weapons of Mass Destruction or WMDs, being deployed on Congress and on the press via letter attack in America in the aftermath of September 11th, 2001 and the discovery that, incontrovertibly, the material for these WMDs was appropriated from U.S. bio-weapons labs like the CDC and Dugway (but more probably from USAMRIID or Battelle).
Coda
As I was running through this post one last time to make sure I didn't have any terrible spelling errors, I realized I should link Battelle's website where I mention it at the end of the last section and the irony of their website's "Mission Accomplished" slogan, in light of all that I've been chronicling here, just sort of hit me in the face. That's really the biggest issue is that these institutions don't learn from their mistakes. Thanks for reading.
Submitted October 26, 2017 at 04:08AM by murderalaska http://ift.tt/2yTd1ER conspiracy
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