Anthony Fauci was instrumental in expanding biowarfare labs after the Anthrax attacks of 2001-2003
This is one the FBI actually said came from a lab
When it comes to creating biowarfare infrastructure, there is no doubt that the Anthrax attacks of 2001-2 were a watershed event for the biowarfare industry.
I found an article from October 2002 written in the Baltimore Sun called “Research institutes unveil plans for Fort Detrick lab expansion.”
The attacks began an “unprecedented national building boom in bioterrorism research, set off by the Bush administration's decision to quadruple biodefense funding to nearly $6 billion a year.”
The first step was construction of a $105 million Biosafety Level 4 lab at Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Fauci said "Events of 2001 have had an impact not only on the nation but on the biomedical field which is now concerned with emerging diseases and defense,"
"Eighteen cases and five deaths associated with anthrax has led to a total transformation in what the biomedical community would have to deal with. The anthrax scare has resulted in a situation unprecedented … and would be a new challenge for American medicine," and
"Biodefense research involves very small amounts of [dangerous] material," Fauci said. "We're trying to do research to protect the population, not to make weapons."
Bzzzt, wrong.
Eileen Choffnes of the National Academy of Sciences said “"These laboratories might become a pathogen-modification training academy or biowarfare agent 'superstore,"
Edward Hammond said “"It seems to me to be too much, too fast," "We're proliferating the knowledge and the means to create biological weapons."
Ding ding ding those are winners.
After the Level 4 biowarfare lab was built at NIAID for $105 million, why not build another one for $1 billion at Fort Detrick. “They said building a second Biosafety Level 4 lab at Fort Detrick - where the Army already has one of a handful of such facilities in the country - will increase efficiency because the labs can share security and other support services.”
Then, hell keep on building them. At least 14 of them were planned in 2002 at the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy and public universities.
I could talk more about how the Anthrax attacks affected the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and how they used this scare to build and fund biowarfare labs like these, but you get the point. The lab takeovers in Africa were supposedly due to the threat of Al-Qaeda taking over some poorly-guarded labs in Africa. What I want to focus on here is that the Anthrax attacks were deliberate and came from Fort Detrick according to the FBI, and created a huge expansion in the biowarfare budget and labs.
“FBI investigators apparently believe the anthrax attacks were most likely carried out by an American with ties to the existing U.S. biodefense program. Fort Detrick is the main repository of the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks, though it has been used in at least two dozen other labs”
I know that’s not proof that Fauci was involved in releasing Anthrax, but you know that Anthony Fauci is the type of person who would be involved in something exactly like this. There’s another person of interest with an interesting take on the Anthrax attacks, Ian Lipkin.
Check out Peter Daszak’s reaction to Ian Lipkin when he starts talking about the Anthrax attacks and how they affected the US biodefense program. Sort of, “I can’t believe you said that.” Like they both knew a secret.
CSPAN - Pandemics FEBRUARY 23, 2016. It’s at the 1:19:21 mark.
Everbody knows Daszak by now. Just a bit on Ian Lipkin. Ian Lipkin travelled to China in 2003 after the SARS1 outbreak and set up China’s version of a CDC. And Lipkin was one of the first on the ground in Saudi Arabia to help them “find” MERS, which was really in the camels all along, and only spread after someone vaccinated the camels and turned them into superspreaders of MERS. But I’m going off on another tangent.
That’s all for this one.
Charles Wright