I don’t know whether the Lindbergh or O.J. Simpson trial was the Trial of the 20th Century, but the biggest mystery of the 21st is who stole anthrax out of the Ft. Detrick, Maryland bioweapons lab and mailed it to Pat Leahy, Tom Daschle, Tom Brokaw and others. Apparently, the FBI is still investigating, and if they ever figure it out, it could be one of the most explosive trials in our nation’s history. It all depends on who that person is connected to and whether they were part of a larger conspiracy. This part is interesting.
In December 2001, an Army commander tried to dispel the possibility of a connection to Fort Detrick by taking the media on a rare tour of the base. The commander said the Army used only liquid anthrax, not powder, for its experiments.
“I would say that it does not come from our stocks, because we do not use that dry material,” Maj. Gen. John Parker said. The letters that were mailed to the media and Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy all contained powdered anthrax.
But in an e-mail obtained by FOX News, scientists at Fort Detrick openly discussed how the anthrax powder they were asked to analyze after the attacks was nearly identical to that made by one of their colleagues.
“Then he said he had to look at a lot of samples that the FBI had prepared … to duplicate the letter material,” the e-mail reads. “Then the bombshell. He said that the best duplication of the material was the stuff made by [name redacted]. He said that it was almost exactly the same … his knees got shaky and he sputtered, ‘But I told the General we didn’t make spore powder!'”
