Francis A. Boyle: Faculty Lecture on Bio/Warfare/Terrorism/Weapons

Francis A. Boyle: Faculty Lecture on Bio/Warfare/Terrorism/Weapons

Introduction

Last Fall we saw an anthrax attack on the United States government that obviously was designed to shut the government down at a very critical moment in our history as a republic, that is immediately after September 11 when Congress should have been in session, making very critical decisions on oversight of the executive branch of government. This did not occur because of these anthrax attacks. I am going to work up to what I think really happened then to the extent anything can be figured out at this point in time. But to do that I will have to go through some historical background on the law and policy and science of biological weapons here in the United States.

Origins of BWC

At least going back to World War II we had an extremely aggressive offensive biological warfare program. Finally, Nixon and Kissinger decided to get rid of this offensive biological warfare program on two grounds. One, it was counterproductive. Militarily these things cannot be controlled. Two, we had a massive superiority in nuclear weapons anyway. Biological weapons (Bios) were the poor man’s atom bomb and we wanted to get rid of them to deprive anyone out there in the third world of a weapon of mass extermination. Nixon unilaterally ordered the termination of our biowarfare program for offensive purposes. Nevertheless the CIA continued its bios program despite the President’s order.

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Cover-Up

What happened? Soon thereafter the FBI authorized the destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Iowa. It had been determined that this was Ames-strain anthrax. The FBI authorized the destruction of that entire supply. It is obvious it was a cover-up. If you had access to that supply you could do a genetic reconstruction of the origins of the Daschle letter. If you had access to the Ames collection scientists would be able to do a genetic reconstruction of where the Daschle and Leahy agents originated.

I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind this attack and they have probably concluded that yes, it was someone who was currently involved in illegal and criminal biological warfare research by the United States government. Either the Pentagon or the CIA or one of their private contractors. And for that reason they are not going to apprehend and they are not going to indict him because obviously he would spill the beans on the whole thing and implicate the Pentagon, CIA, whoever is behind this. So this is where we are today, where the FBI says we are working on it, but of course, that is ridiculous. (Emphasis added)

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