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Anthrax to Zodiac

Mar 30, 2024

This post concludes Chapter 3 of Anthrax to Zodiac with more detail on the government's case against Dr. Bruce Ivins.

Ultimately, after Dr. Ivins's death, the FBI declared that they had gotten their man and promptly closed the case despite the fact that Dr. Ivins died an innocent man, having never been charged,...


Mar 23, 2024

So who actually mailed the anthrax letters? In the first part of the investigation, the government focused its attention on bacteriologist Dr. Steven Hatfill. But, eventually, the FBI admitted that Dr. Hatfill was not involved at all, publicly exonerated him, and paid him almost five million dollars in damages for...


Mar 16, 2024

In Chapter 2, we take a look at the actual mailings and examine the total extent of the contamination and total cost of the cleanup. We also explore the general investigative strategies that guided the FBI's Amerithrax investigation and consider the amazing scope of the failed efforts of the task force.

 

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Mar 9, 2024

This post contains the second half of Chapter 1 of Anthrax to Zodiac. Here, we examine the meat of the timeline of events involved in the mailings and learn, step by step and day by day, how the bioweapons successfully penetrated the halls of power in the US government and leading media outlets while federal agents,...


Mar 2, 2024

On September 11, 2001, Americans watched in disbelief as jumbo jets crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The country was under attack. 

Families huddled around their televisions, waiting to see if other hijacked planes were still in the sky, on a collision course with more...