FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials

[deminks]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html

WASHINGTON - In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda, but investigators ruled that out, the Daily News has learned.

After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.

"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News.

On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, "There may be some possible link" to Bin Laden, adding, "I wouldn't put it past him." Vice President Cheney also said Bin Laden's henchmen were trained "how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together."

via Larisa

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/08/fbi-was-told-to.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Freaking republicons have no respect for truth, no honor

As evidenced yet again and again and again. What a curse they are upon this great American nation.

[ladjf]

12. The Republicons see truth and honor as signs of weakness.

[Demeter]

2. So, It Was a Cheney Special, Then?

Not surprising. Why not take the credit, Dick? You've acknowledged worse crimes. Boasted, even.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Yeah, except for one small detail.

IT WAS AMERICAN ANTHRAX USED TO KILL AMERICANS.

Funny how the FACTS get in the way.

EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
LYING
BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Toucano]

26. The devil is in the details.

And the White House.

[yardwork]

4. Very interesting. Some people caved into the Bush administration and others did not.

The CIA and Colin Powell caved. They provided false evidence and or/false witness to enable the Bush White House to invade Iraq. It looks like Mueller did not cave.

If he had, we would have seen much more about the anthrax attacks in the news, and it would have been continually cited as another piece of "evidence" proving that we must invade Iraq immediately.

Looks like Mueller would not play ball. Good for him.

[Disturbed]

7. McNasty was also spreading this manure around.

McNasty has been a fraud ever since he graduated Middle School.

[MadMaddie]

5. So is it Treason yet?

Crimes against the state.....?

Anything....?

[Botany]

10. Nancy is gonna write a letter

a mean one too.

[MadMaddie]

14. And it will start with, With Regards, pretty please...blah..blah..blah.

[Frisbee]

41. I believe she's saving it for her next book.

Let's hope she has lots of time to write it after she is replaced by a true progressive democrat.

[UTUSN]

6. Well well well -- k&R BIG #5 for DAYUM!1 n/t

[C_U_L8R]

8. McCain was blaming Iraq

once again showing off his keen intelligence and sharp strategic skills ( not ! )

[Supersedeas]

30. using Letterman as a vehicle to beat the drums of war

[keepCAblue]

32. ...because ABC/Brian Ross reported anthrax was linked to Iraq

McCain was just being a good neocon foot soldier in repeating the ABC propaganda that they had "proof" that the anthrax was linked to Iraq and Saddam Hussein...hence, giving Bush & Cheney justification to invade Iraq

Salon article:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html

[Botany]

9. They are crooks

So after 9/11 "they" tried to pin that on Saddam
And after the Anthrax attacks "they" tried to pin those on Osoma
(even though they knew through DNA test that the Anthrax came from
Ft. Detrick, Maryland)

[Supersedeas]

11. before we get the whole truth -- will Dimson begin issuing pardons to himself and others

[judasdisney]

13. Don't be silly. Who is Robert Mueller?

Robert Mueller: “There is a continuum between those who would express dissent and those who would do a terrorist act. Somewhere along that continuum we have to begin to investigate.”
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a101802continuum#a101802continuum

Robert Mueller was installed as FBI chief on September 4, 2001, seven days before 9/11.Robert Mueller was previously stationed in Boston, a key city in the 9/11 plot. Robert Mueller was U.S. attorney in Boston, where the suboffice of the FBI was SHIELDED FROM INVESTIGATION during a key scandal in which the FBI suboffice had developed mob ties.

Bush later BLOCKED INQUIRY into the Boston FBI, which Mueller as U.S. attorney had also shielded from inquiry.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htm

Robert Mueller first swept aside, then later minimized, the whistleblower concerns of Coleen Rowley. http://www.slate.com/id/2065954/

And then Sibel Edmonds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds

August 9, 2005: Mueller Urges InfraGard Members to Inform FBI of ‘Suspicious Activities’ and ‘Disgruntled Employees’
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a080905muellerinfragard#a080905muellerinfragard

Mueller exhibits retaliatory conduct toward FBI whistleblower agent Robert Wright
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a060203takehimout#a060203takehimout

Mueller issued "plane attack warnings" during the 2004 election season to help Bush hype fear
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a051604ashcroftwarning#a051604ashcroftwarning

January 10, 2003: Government Employees Responsible for 9/11 Failures Are PROMOTED by Mueller
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a120402promotions#a120402promotions

March 24, 2004-May 2004: Mueller Says Saudi Associates of Hijackers Not Involved in Plot; This Conclusion Is Disputed by Senator Bob Graham (D-FL)
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a032404fbisays#a032404fbisays

September 25, 2002: FBI Director Mueller Denies Moussaoui Leads Could Have Prevented 9/11
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a092502mueller#a092502mueller

September 2002: FBI Agent Sees ‘Grave Violations’ in FBI Handling of Terrorism Case in Florida, Complains DIRECTLY TO MUELLER and is Retaliated Against
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0902german#a0902german

Mueller Rejects Law Enforcement Solution To Al Qaeda
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0102ciatakescontrol#a0102ciatakescontrol

Robert Mueller's FBI practiced widespread use of all-purpose "National Security Letters" -- blank checks to investigate anyone for any reason, which the FBI itself issues -- then Mueller later orders a criminal probe of this practice which was expanded to "carte blanche" levels by the PATRIOT ACT.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=civilliberties_325#civilliberties_325
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter

October 9, 2001: FBI Agents Told to Curtail 9/11 Investigation and Focus on Preventing Future Attacks
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a100901curtailinvestigation#a100901curtailinvestigation

[undeterred]

15. Wasn't part of the reason for going into Iraq "biological weapons"?

It wasn't just weapons of mass destruction, it was the threat of biological and chemical warfare. They made it sound like our troops would be in danger if they weren't in hazmat gear all the time. Well, that was another thing never found in Iraq.

[JackBeck]

16. "This is the song that never ends...as it just goes on and on and on my friend"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_song_that_never_ends

[The Stranger]

17. LIHOP or MIHOP of 911 becomes ever more likely, each passing day, we learn more.

The Power of Nightmares

[global1]

22. You Are Spot On - Connecting The Dots Is Becoming Easier And Easier......

each passing day. Some of the dots being connected pre 9/11 up to 9/11 and other dots being connected backwards from where we are today. Soon they will converge and I got to believe that someone will lay this open.

I'll ask the question - If * issues pardons and after he leaves office it all comes together - can we still get these guys?

[samdogmom]

33. My guess--Bush's pardons are only good for U.S. crimes & prosecution.

If he actually issues pardons, we'll need the rest of the world to step in and see that justice is done!

I want to see the whole rotten lot thrown in the Hague!

I sure hope the outrage worldwide is so overwhelming if he issues pardons that another country steps up and brings every evil criminal in the present administration to justice!

One question: Don't you have to be tried and convicted of, or at least charged with a crime before the President can issue a pardon? Can he actually pardon someone before they're charged? If this happens won't that be telling? How would he know the pardoned needed pardoning if there were never any charges in the first place?

[AntiFascist]

18. K&R, gee I wonder how much coverage this story will get?

at least KO should follow-up with it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. It just boggles the mind.

[MinM]

20. On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, "There may be some possible link"

An Anthrax Timeline:

On September 5, Ms. Clarke--lured back into government service by pal Mary Matalin on Vice President Dick Cheney's staff, from a high-paying post as Manhattan office director for the venerable public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton--the former PR chief to Senator John McCain and one-time George Bush (the elder) staffer would divulge to foreign media that the United States, via the Pentagon and the shadowy Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, would begin producing a new and potent strain of anthrax bacteria, and that such plans had been in the works since 1997. The source of the anthrax was to be from Russian stock, and, according to Ms. Clarke, would be used "purely for defensive measures."

At the popular political site FreeRepublic.com, Victoria Clarke posts as "Torie"--a self-proclaimed "statist neocon." The Pentagon's disinformation campaign was already in motion on September 5, 2001, and Victoria Clarke, then employed as Deputy Director for Public Affairs, was its "go-to girl" on "the anthrax question."...


After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens

On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, "There may be some possible link" to Bin Laden, adding, "I wouldn't put it past him." Vice President Cheney also said Bin Laden's henchmen were trained "how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html

October 17, 2001: Top Bush Administration Officials Look to Blame Anthrax Attacks on Al-Qaeda, Iraq, or Russia
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a101701anthraxblame#a101701anthraxblame

On Oct. 18, 2001, a White House alarm went off indicating that sensors had detected dangerous levels of radioactive, chemical or biological agents. According to Mayer, anyone who had entered the White House situation room, including Cheney, had been exposed...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3395128

October 18, 2001 (days before ABC News first broadcast their bentonite report) John McCain, on the David Letterman Show:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x164521

[yardwork]

21. Thank you for posting this timeline.

I always remember that the first victim of the anthrax murders was Robert Stevens, killed shortly after the Sun published that embarrassing photo of Jenna Bush. AND the feds shrinkwrapped the Sun's entire inventory, including photos of who knows what, and have never released them.

[MetaTrope]

23. And then the contaminated building was bought for a song by none other than Rudy Giuliani

As advertisement for his environmental decontamination business.

Wonder if he was expecting a booming demand?

[yardwork]

24. So interesting...

[Olney Blue]

25. Amazing, but not surprising.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. The White House has no business interfering or directing law enforcement

to come to their preconceived answer as to who was behind the Anthrax.

"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East". Why? Wouldn't ANYONE want to find out who to blame first? As in find out who really was responsible?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

28. The title of this thread is the single most damning phrase I have ever seen regarding this Admin.

Complete and utter disregard by Cheney/Bush to track down the real killer who was still on the lose. Killing Americans (postal workers, little old ladies, media guy) - threatening the MSM and our representatives.

[MadrasT]

29. Big KICK and R

I hate these lying bastards. I really do.

:kick:

[redqueen]

31. When did McCain spew that lie on Letterman?

Warmongering assholes, all of them.

[sellitman]

34. Can anyone tell me why McCain is tied with Obama?

I just don't effen get it.

[Frisbee]

42. Because we live in...

a redneck christian theocracy where the average citizen is more concerned with Nascar and keeping a black guy out of the WH. Politicians love to say what great respect they have for the American voters, which I guess they have to, but I have very little respect for the average voter. They gave us two Bushes, Tom Delay, Ted Stevens, Strom Thurman and the list just goes on and on. So respect, not a bit from me.

[dothemath]

45. Because we live in ...............

You nailed it, ImForGore. I wonder if there will be any substantive and truthful discussions about how much the first sentence says about American voters before election day.

Does anyone think there will? Or will politicians continue with the usual crap about 'how smart the voters are'?

[pleah]

35. I knew it had nothing to do with Al Qaeda when

they started saying who was exposed/targeted.

[Wizard777]

36. Old M.O. Making facts based on decissions. Not making decissions based on facts.

[defendandprotect]

37. Was surprised that in reading Scott McClellan's supposedly

"truthful" book that he seems to push idea that it was the PRESS which wanted to blame

Iraq --- and the White House and HE were fighting so hard against that idea!!!

[Auggie]

38. Years from now historians are going to look back at this and say

:wtf:

[Supersedeas]

39. SORORITY stories make National News, but this does not get any play

[rambler_american]

40. I've always found it interesting

that the White House was taking Cipro a week before the anthrax attacks.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/2953.shtml

Thieves and murderers!

[malaise]

43. KO's about to deal with this n/t

[rateyes]

44. Ho hum. Another impeachable offense, and Congress yawns.

:banghead: