rico, suave,

“If they had really been covering their asses for 9/11, Major Hassan would not have been allowed to stay in the Army and kill at Ft Hood. Talk about psychological profiles being ignored!

The Army has been pussified by political correctness, just like all other government institutions.”

Irrelevant garbage, as usual, Rico. I’ve never believed Hasan just went on a shooting spree. Take a look at the video of him only hours before the so called terror attack, in a coffee shop leaving with his take away coffee in his hand pleasant, normal and smiling. Then consider that this man had dedicated his life to treating soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder. Add to that the fact that he was a doctor trained to save life not take it. Add to that the fact that he was basically a man of non-violence and what have you got? Another patsy.

Then you have to think about the two men arrested at the scene with Hasan who were released with no explanation and no information on who they were or who they worked for. You have to also add in that the only way that Hasan could have wounded or killed so many people in such a short space of time was if he burst in with a gun in each hand and fired with tremendous speed and accuracy in a way that would do credit to Billy the Kid. The man was a psychiatrist, for God’s sake, not a sharp shooter, and he was also a major in the US army. If he had all the negative traits they are now trying to say he had why was he promoted to such a high rank? No one has ever been able to explain any of this and no one has ever tried because no one has asked these vital questions in the media or anywhere else. And the icing on the cake are the two stories put out at first and rabidly run by the media for a couple of days: namely that Hasan was dead but then lo and behold, no he’s not but he is paralyzed from the neck down. The other story is that a woman law officer shot Hasan but lo and behold, no she didn’t it was actually allegedly a man (and of course there’s no way of knowing if he actually shot him either or if it was one of the two men who were arrested and then released).

This whole thing has the stink of the CIA and military intelligence all over it and believe me I’m familiar with that stink. It’s been hanging around ever since I first heard about building number 7 and read interviews with the people from Shanksville who say no plane ever crashed there. The CIA’s got a bad case of hubris but they will never convince me they’re holding up five fingers when all the evidence tells me it’s four. If Major Hasan had chosen his parents more carefully (his parents are Palestinian) we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

The anthrax letters included the attempt to place the blame on Islamic extremists.
Fortunately the science done in the analysis of the anthrax relatively quickly
showed that the source was a domestic source, which led to the eventual
discovery the spores came from a government lab. Whoever tried to pin the blame
of the letters on Islamic extremists failed miserably.

The science into the destruction of the WTC towers also shows materials from a
government lab was likely included in the attacks. The effort to blame those
attacks on Islamic extremists was more successful, but as thinly substantiated as
the anthrax attacks.

It is very unlikely Ivins had anything to do with the anthrax attacks. What a sham,
and a shame that he bears this dishonest legacy.

RE: ...Major Hassan… political correctness… !?!?

soldier of Alla, mountebank for Islamofascism, recruiter, loudmouth jihadist…
analysis: protected patsy -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7_7UdMQe8

No, Lex Lightning, they don’t. Well, that’s not completely accurate: there might be some little old ladies and little old men in the Bronx who believe it, but no one else does.

According to an article by Christopher Ketchum in “American Conservative”, Colleagues at Fort Detrick repeatedly told the media that they did not see how Ivins would have had the knowledge or the skill to produce the weapons grade anthrax that was sent by mail to Democrat Senators Leahy and Daschle and journalists such as Tom Brokaw as well as The New York Post.  Another confusing fact was that Ivins was a registered Democrat and had never been known to vote otherwise. Why would he target Democrat senators? Both Leahy and Daschle had been prepared to resist the passage of the Patriot Act and had publicly stated their opposition to its passage into law.  After the mailing of the anthrax letters and a national panic, heavily promoted by the media, the Patriot Act passed on October 25th 2001. 

And the behaviour of the FBI in this case was enigmatic if not downright bizarre.

Dr. Gerry Andrews, a microbiologist, wrote in the New York Times that when Ivins’ team looked at the powder they found that it was ‘startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparations, the likes of which had never been seen before by the personnel at Fort Detrick’.  Andrews also made what Ketchum calls ‘an astonishing allegation’ namely, ‘It is extremely improbable that this type of preparation could ever have been produced at Fort Detrick, certainly not of the grade and quality found in that envelope.’ So, whodunnit? Ketchum writes that Francis Boyle suggests in his book, Biowarfare and Terrorism, that if the FBI had pursued a proper investigation the evidence would have ‘led directly back to a secret but officially sponsored U.S. government biowarfare program that was illegal and criminal, in violation of (the) biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.’ Ketchum adds that the New York Times made a similar claim on September 4th 2001. Namely that:
‘the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons…earlier this year, administration officials said, the Pentagon drew up plans to engineer genetically a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes anthrax.’

In the same way that Steven Hatfill was hounded by the FBI for three years until exonerated by a trial and paid compensation, Bruce Ivins was subjected to a Kafkaesque nightmare. He was, he told the AP, stalked by the FBI, as was his family. Ketchum records that the FBI offered Ivins’ son $2.5 million and ‘a sports car of his choice’ to give evidence against his father. Ivins’ hospitalized daughter did not escape their attentions either.  They came to her bedside and showed her pictures of victims of anthrax and told her, ‘This is what your father did.’ Ivins’ supervisor, W. Russell Byrne, told the AP that Ivins was a broken man who would sit at his desk and weep. The case against Ivins was almost laughable, completely circumstantial and would have failed in any courtroom but in Ketchum’s article Francis Boyle describes the FBI’s strategy against Ivins as, ‘persecute him until he broke, which Ivins did and Hatfill did not. Dead men tell no tales.’

In the end Ketchum sums up with the only thing that is known with certainty:
‘The acknowledged certainty is that the anthrax letters weren’t the work of Islamists or Iraqis. The attacks were perpetrated by someone with high-level access to U.S. government supplies of the deadly bacteria.”

Ivins was an innocent man: a patsy, if you like, and the real perpetrators were in the US government and in the CIA as the attempt to link the anthrax letters to Iraq proves. That’s what the evidence says and the evidence should be heeded, not lies and speculation.

If they had really been covering their asses for 9/11, Major Hassan would not have been allowed to stay in the Army and kill at Ft Hood. Talk about psychological profiles being ignored!

The Army has been pussified by political correctness, just like all other government institutions.

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Army was still covering their ass from the attack of 9/11.