3 April 2002. Add reader comment.

28 March 2002. Thanks to Wayne Madsen.

On a related matter, thanks to EW, Cryptome has received audio files (no text available) of "Doomsday Scenario - Emerging Infectious Diseases, Weak Links in the Food Chain, and Bioterrorism," from the 98th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 17-21 1998, Atlanta, Georgia. Thanks to BD, the Doomsday Scenario audio files:

http://66.221.7.99/cryptome/index.htm

See also a paper from the conference, "Anthrax Vaccine Has Long Shelf Life," by Bruce Ivins, USAMRIID Bacteriology Division, Fort Detrick:

http://www.asmusa.org/pcsrc/gm98e017.htm

From: WMadsen777@aol.com
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:17:15 EST
Subject: More evidence of our very peculiar American coup d'etat

Two more stories indicating the United States is now under a military-corporate dictatorship

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If we don't think a right-wing creeping militaristic coup is taking place in this country, yesterday Bush named as his Surgeon General Richard Carmona, a damned Arizona SWAT cop and former "weapons specialist" with the Green Berets. Among the "weapons" used by US Special Forces are chemical and biological weapons like anthrax. How convenient: the anthrax spore trail leads to Fort Detrick and then the dauphin Dubya appoints a Special Operations Forces weapons specialist.

And for Director of the National Institutes of Health, Bush names Dr. Elias Zerhouni, an Algerian-born professor at Johns Hopkins University and notorious Pentagon yes-man. Zerhouni has had an interesting involvement with anthrax -- as a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, he and his colleagues gave a green light to the Pentagon's use of a questionable anthrax vaccine on uniformed (and uninformed) military personnel.

The best man for the NIH Director would have been Dr. Don Wiley of Harvard. But the world's top immuno-biophysicist "accidentally" fell over the side of the Interstate 55 bridge into the Mississippi River last November 15. At first, authorities said he committed suicide. Then his body was found on Dec. 21 300 miles to the south in Vidalia, Louisiana. The Memphis coroner ruled Wiley's fall over a 6 foot fence an "accident." A few weeks ago a bomb was found planted at the Memphis coroner's office where Wiley's body had been autopsied. Wiley was the world's expert on Ebola, smallpox, HIV-AIDS and last October was part of a joint Harvard-NIH team that discovered a genetic cure for anthrax after isolating the anthrax gene in a mouse. Just a few days after the announcement of the scientific find, we heard about the first fatal anthrax case in Florida.

This is what Meryl Nass, MD reported on the Institute's flawed and totally pro-Pentagon report:

The Institute of Medicine Weighs in on Anthrax Vaccine; DOD Scores A Knockout

Mar. 10, 2002

(But read the report, and the Institute doesn't have a leg to stand on)

Meryl Nass, MD

"Nearly two years ago, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review the existing data on safety and efficacy of the anthrax vaccine (AVA). A committee was created by the NAS Institute of Medicine (IOM) to do this, and the group met over the last seventeen months to review this complex and controversial issue.

I attended several of the open meetings, made an invited presentation, and supplied nearly 300 pages of supporting information to the committee.

The National Academy of Science's report 'The Anthrax Vaccine: Is it safe? Does it work?' was released March 6. It claimed to be a thorough compilation of all the existing data, weighted by reliability, and included a number of recommendations and ideas for further research.

What did the report conclude? Here is where it gets interesting.

The report's conclusions rely on ignoring many pieces of crucial information, and its recommendations give the Department of Defense everything it could have wanted. The report appears to be “spun” to support a number of DOD initiatives, and it provides the needed justification for restarting mandatory anthrax vaccinations over the objections of many in Congress."

Read the rest of this interesting report and Dr. Nass's congressional testimony at http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/IOM_Anthrax_critique.html

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So there we have it. A Green Beret for Surgeon General and a Pentagon yes man for NIH Director. The Senate must reject these two nominations as decisively as it rejected that pro-cross burning Judge Charles Pickering for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Congress must act now to stop America's creeping coup d'etat!!!

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White House Reviews Carter Cuba Visit

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is studying former President Carter's request to travel to Cuba this year. If he gets the green light, the White House wants Carter to push for human rights, a spokesman said.

The Treasury Department, which issues permits for Cuba travel, is considering the matter, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

Under provisions that restrict travel to Cuba, people seeking to visit the country for humanitarian purposes need to get permission from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, a department spokeswoman said. Applicants must write a letter and provide information, details and documentation about the trip in order to get permission.

The spokeswoman said she did not know the status of Carter's request.

``The law is clear, the law will be obeyed,'' Fleischer said Monday.

Fleischer said President Bush would want Carter to carry a ``very direct, straightforward message'' to the Cuban leadership. ``In order to have human rights in Cuba, it's important for Fidel Castro to allow democracy to take root, to stop repression, to stop imprisonments, to bring freedom to the people of Cuba,'' Fleischer said.

Wait just a minute, I don't remember President Carter having to get Treasury Department permission to travel to North Korea, to the Bosnian Serb Republic, Sudan or other countries with which we lacked diplomatic relations. If President Carter has lost his freedom to travel, what about the rest of us mere mortals? Who the hell is that drunkard Ari Fleischer (and his boss) to dictate where and when President Carter may travel? If ex-Presidents travels are to be monitored, how about someone monitoring Poppy Bush's trips to Saudi Arabia to meet with representatives of the Bin Laden construction cartel on behalf of his employer, The Carlyle Group.

Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:10:03 -0700
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
From: "DB"
Subject: Re: Cryptome question

Well, I'm curious.  The item usa-odd-coup.htm certainly does not appear to qualify under either of the criteria enumerated in the "Documents Welcomed" link.

This article contains the following statement:

"The Senate must reject these two nominations as decisively as it rejected that pro-cross burning Judge Charles Pickering for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals"

which indicates that the article's author is having some trouble with reality.

So, do you post just ***anything*** that anybody sends you?  If I concoct a similarly wild story and refer to Senators Clinton and Daschle as 'jack-booted thugs' will you post it?

If not, what is your criteria then?

Good grief.  A few years ago, Cryptome was a pretty reliable source of information.   Based upon some of the junk I've seem on Cryptome recently, I can hardly consider you to be a credible source.

What gives?

Sincerely,

DB

Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:29
To:  "DB"
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Cryptome question

I understood that was the reason for your asking about criteria for publishing and why we ponder your question unendingly. We get a fair number of readers who disagree with stuff posted, in fact, a majority of those who disagree ask us to remove the material and never publish that kind of stuff again. That indicates success for our venture.

We welcome disagreement, for that is why we operate Cryptome, to publish what people disagree about. We would feel like a failure if what we published everyone thought was hunky-dory.

With that publishing policy we might wind up being considered a reliable forum, a place where people come to find stuff they agree with.

This is not meant to be ironic or insulting, but your disagreement is very valuable, and we would indeed invite you to submit your own material for publication on Cryptome in hope that  others will disagree with it and send us theirs in response.

You know that those who strongly disagree with you will call you nuts and worse, and that means you are getting through the hardheads.

Write a strong critique of the essays you dislike; we'd like to publish it. The last thing we want is to be a haven for monomaniacs like national leaders around the globe.

Regards,

John