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About a week after the September 11th horrors in 2001, letters containing Anthrax spores were received at the three major television news network headquarters, as well as by The New York Post and The National Inquirer. A month later, Senator Tom Daschle and Senator Patrick Leahy's offices each received similar letters, containing spores of Anthrax. These became known as the 2001 Anthrax Attacks.

The events of the autumn of 2001 was pivotal for me, and I've spent some time researching these events over the past 7 years, especially considering that we're still in a war against the alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 massacres and we're still seemingly unable to be provided with a credible resolution to who perpetrated the September/October Anthrax attacks. One of the standout tellings of this time, and the specific details, is a book by Richard Preston, entitled The Demon In The Freezer. It's a harrowing read, detailing the effects of Smallpox and Anthrax.

One of the central story-lines of this book is a detailed look at USAMRID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, located in Frederick, Maryland. USAMRIID is ostensibly a bio-weapons research facility, where they have a special setup for studying lethal organisms, for the express desire of defending our country from bio-warfare and infectious breakouts.

This week, one of the alleged suspects of the 2001 Anthrax attacks, USAMRIID senior researcher Bruce E. Ivans, committed suicide, via an overdose of codeine. This occurred days before the US Justice Department were going to charge Ivans with the 2001 Anthrax crimes.

Soon after this turn of events, I read this story, by Salon Magazine journalist Glenn Greenwald, which lays out a potential scenario that truly frightened me - One, that if Ivans was indeed responsible for placing the Anthrax in the letters, that there is a clear inference that the letters were intentionally linked to the 9/11 massacres, and that it was done by at least one US citizen. - Two, if the above is true, then there are two possibilities for a reasonable mind to consider - That either Ivans did this as a deliberate plot to create a demand for the vaccine he helped invent (he stood to gain financially), or that some segment of the government used Mr. Ivans to guarantee our entering a full-scale war, where friends of high government officials stood to gain financially.

I realize that both are plausible, and that there might be yet another answer to this puzzle. But I wonder - especially after seeing what incredible corruption their was during the Nixon administration - is it *possible* that the current administration would have wanted money so badly that they perpetrated the Anthrax attacks in order to secure nation-wide support for the War on Terror?

Yes, to the uninitiated, this may seem far-fetched. But if you read the transcripts of Richard Nixon's tapes from his Oval Office, and if you read about such events as The Tuskeegee Experiments, Project MKULTRA, as well as many other collusions documented by the US government, which provided little regard for the sanctity of human rights, you begin to see the possibilities. And I assert that is what our job is as citizens of this great land: to look for the possibilities and defend each other from the wanton disregard of our fundamental liberties.