Mueller badly needs Killing

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FBI Director Robert Mueller reports his bureau has no plans to investigate
the chief suspect in the international anthrax mailings case.
FBI Implicated in Anthrax Mailings Cover-up: Mueller Reports No Intention
to Investigate Chief Suspect
Sandpoint, ID FBI officials may be implicated in a conspiracy to impede
justice in the anthrax mailings case, if not treasonous dereliction of
duty, according to a growing number of scientists and consumer advocates.
After officials cited the likeliest origin of the powdered anthrax was the
U.S. Armys Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, or its Ohio-based supplier and
CIA-contractor, Battelle Memorial Instititue (BMI), FBI Director Robert
Mueller announced the bureau has no intention of investigating anyone with,
or formerly with, their chief suspectBMI.
Just weeks ago, major progress in the FBIs investigation seemed
forthcoming. The New York Times and Washington Post revealed that BMI,
Dugways anthrax facility supplier and chief administrator had contracted
with the CIA (in project Clear Vision) to produce, albeit illegally, the
1 trillion spore-per-gram strain of anthrax under investigation. BMI, while
heading the U.S. militarys Joint Vaccine Acquisitions Program worth more
than $1 billion in vaccine contracts, commissioned Americas top anthrax
expert, William C. Patrick, III, to deliver a report on the powdered
anthraxs prospects for being spread through the mail.
Thus, by mid-December, the public, including health scientists urged to
help federal officials identify suspects, realized that someone with high
level security clearance, a black-op budget, access to the BMI/Dugway
anthrax labs, and vaccine sales incentive, most likely took BMIs powdered
anthrax, and prepared it for mailing from Trenton, NJ; St. Petersburg, FL;
Atlanta, GA; and Malaysia.
For the first time since the 1975 Frank Church congressional investigation
of the CIA for illegally stockpiling anthrax and other biological weapons,
the public learned that the CIA had been violating the international Geneva
Accord moratorium on biological weapons developmenta revelation somewhat
embarrassing to American diplomats engaged in the global War on Terrorism.
The day before Christmas, an Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal
additionally implicated BMI, and potentially the FBI, along with rogue
elements within the CIA, in an international conspiracy to commit and
cover-up the anthrax mailings crime.
BMI and Bioport, a Michigan-based offshoot of Britains leading biological
weapons organization at Porton Down, were previously reported to be
collaborating on the manufacture and supply of Americas only anthrax
vaccine. Dr. Robert C. Myers, Chief Operating Officer of BioPort, told a
Senate Appropriations Committee in 1996 that he was part of a team of
organizations, led by Battelle Memorial Institute . . .  The Journal
writer Edward Jay Epstein cited the testimony of U.S. Army bioweapons
official David Franz concerning Americas reliance on British intelligence
provided by Porton Down officials regarding the development and use of the
powdered Ames strain of anthrax.
Thus, the FBIs disregard of foreign suspects, especially Porton Down, with
direct links to Bioport and BMIs anthrax vaccine, vaccine contracts, and
BMIs and Dugways anthrax experiments, was criticized by Epstein as it was
days earlier in the Washington Post.
More evidence of the FBIs intentional ineptitude came from the Columbus
Dispatch. Though the Washington Post reported that the FBI was allegedly
pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the motive behind the
anthrax mailings, and that two laboratories were especially implicated,
that is, BMI and Dugway, a contradictory announcement was relayed the same
day (Dec. 21, 2001) by Ohio Senator Mike DeWine. Based on an ABC News
report concerning a BMI employee who had been under FBI investigation for
an anthrax threat, FBI Director Robert Mueller had, according to The
Dispatch, assured Senator DeWine that the bureau was not investigating, nor
intending to investigate, anyone with, or formerly with, BMI.
Currently then, the FBI has no intention of investigating its chief
suspect, despite the grave likelihood that the remaining mystery will
continue to exact massive economic and socio-political tolls.
These proceedings have bewildered and even outraged many scientists and
public health professionals from whom the FBI requested assistance.
In defending the FBIs position, the Washington Post reported that the
bureau only learned of a BMI-administered CIA defensive biowarfare
contract involving the Ames-strain of anthrax in recent weeks. The CIA
program was [allegedly] designed to develop defenses to a vaccine-resistant
strain of anthrax reportedly created by the former Soviet Union, officials
defended. CIA spokespersons expressed certainty that the anthrax used in
the mailings did not come from their work.
Taking the agency on its word, the powdered anthrax may not have come from
their work, but their contractors work, that is, BMI.
Critics claim this CIA defense is deceptive for at least two other reasons:
1) the Soviet Unions most potent anthrax was only half as concentrated as
this new CIA/Battelle creation; and 2) it is an American/BritishAmes,
Iowastrain prototype, not a Soviet creation, and not resembling anything
available to Iraq or other countries favored by terrorists. This spoils the
excuse the powdered anthrax was produced for any form of defense,
including vaccines.
Vaccines are developed to help guard against pre-existing threats, said
Ingri Cassel, director of the national Vaccination Liberation associationa
consumer education and advocacy group. This anthrax powder was illegally
prepared, apparently for offensive military uses, sabotage, and even
terrorism. You simply dont develop a new hyper-weaponized strain of
anthrax powder for military defense, which implies preventive vaccinations
against old Soviet threats, and then commission the top U.S. anthrax expert
[William C. Patrick, III] to report on this new weapons capability and
lethality from mailed delivery, unless thats how you foresee it being
used, Ms. Cassel reasoned.
Many people are pondering the suspicious Machiavellian-like targeting of
the mass media and congressional Democrats (liberals) befitting the phrase
the ends justifies the means. Multi-million dollar vaccine contracts,
fast-tracked drug approvals, and frenzied consumer and legislative demand
for costly, risky, and largely ineffective vaccines, antibiotics, and other
high-priced preventives are the most obvious results of the anthrax mailings.
Referring to the unprecedented silica-based, electro-statically charged,
dry powdered form of hyper-concentrated anthrax sent through the mail to
members of the media and Senators Daschle and Leahy, Dr. Horowitz
concluded, It was the only form of anthrax that could be effectively
spread, as it was, through the U.S. mail with such far reaching effects.
Therefore, the primary suspects have been identified, their dubious
histories are well known, and their motives are clear. Any further effort
to impede this investigation places FBI director Mueller in the position of
an enemy national, or a traitor to the American people he is sworn to
protect.
We need you to take this Govt modified Virus so we can protect you-FBI's
magic lantern links/hirstory
Magic Lantern - The FBI's viral key-logger -links (english)
by mg reposted 12:14am Wed Jan 2 '02 (Modified on 3:21pm Wed Jan 2 '02)
list of links to articles
Please feel free to distribute this far and wide:
Magic Lantern - The FBI's viral key-logger
- The Latest -
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0037.html >[ISN] FBI confirms "Magic
Lantern"
project exists
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0039.html >[ISN] Infamous hacker
group helps the Feds
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0043.html Re: [ISN] Infamous
hacker group helps the Feds - cDc calls announcement "satire"
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0053.html Re: [ISN] Infamous
hacker group helps the Feds
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0064.html [ISN] DIRT-Magic
Lantern Firm Barred from Gov Work
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0063.html >FBI may be getting
full benefit of Magic Lantern... from BadTrans.B
[ISN] FBI surveillance bonanza in BadTrans.B worm
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02955.html >From the "We don't need no
stinkin' oversight" dept.:
Politech: FBI refuses to tell Congress aide about "classified" Magic Lantern
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1108 >Homeland
Security, Homeland Profits
Technology Already in the Hands of Law Enforcement
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1092 >FBI Software
Records Each Keystroke
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1009 >Software Firms
Object to FBI Eavesdropping
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/technology/ebusiness/31TECH.9.html >
Scarfo, Phase 2: a.k.a. "Magic Lantern"
CYBERSECURITY - Threat of Terrorism on U.S. Infrastructure (nytimes.com)
What is Magic Lantern?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp?cp1=1 FBI software cracks encryption
wall
'Magic Lantern' part of new 'Enhanced Carnivore Project'
http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html EPIC
Carnivore (and 'Enhanced Carnivore') FOIA Documents
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099906,00.html >ZDNet
News: FBI's magic revealed as old tricks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3371-2001Nov22.html >FB
I Is Building a 'Magic Lantern' (washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1436-2001Nov22.html >FB
I Develops Eavesdropping Tools (washingtonpost.com)
McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02822.html >Declan McCullagh's Politech
FBI reportedly creating "Magic Lantern" anti-crypto virus
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02834.html >Declan McCullagh's Politech
McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern"
http://www.factsquad.org/radio/2001-11-26.mp3 >The Spy in Your Computer?
(.mp3)
from Fact Squad Radio
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02837.html Declan McCullagh's Politech
Has McAfee sided with FBI on "Magic Lantern" detection?
http://www.ct.heise.de/newsticker/data/wst-26.11.01-001/ >Spokesman
for NAI in Germany disputes the Washington Post article
from the German news site "Heise Online"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02839.html >Declan McCullagh's Politech
McAfee replies -- by denying any FBI contacts of any sort
http://www.interesting-people.org/ob/htsearch?config=lists_elistx_com
&restrict=%2Finteresting-people%2F&method=and&sort=score&words=%22magi
c+lantern%22 >"Magic Lantern" Discussion
from Dave Farber's Interesting-People elist
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=mcafee >Declan
McCullagh's Politech
Background on McAfee/NAI
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48648,00.html >Wired News Summary
'Lantern' Backdoor Flap Rages, By Declan McCullagh
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02840.html >Declan McCullagh's Politech
AP's Ted Bridis replies to McAfee: "I stand by my reporting"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02846.html >Declan McCullagh's Politech
McAfee broadens denial: No contact with government of any sort
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.html >AV vendors split
over FBI Trojan snoops
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02851.html >Declan McCullagh's Politech
Symantec pledges to acquiese to FBI backdoor demands
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=lantern >Politech
Summary re: "Magic Lantern"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23150.html >FBI 'Magic
Lantern' reality check (original article picked up by ISN, below)
http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0015.html >[ISN] Magic Lantern
reality check
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7944351.html?tag=rltdnws >FBI
snoop tool old hat for hackers
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2829781,00.html >Warn
ing - The FBI knows what you're typing
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100528,00.html >Antivir
us firms: FBI loophole is out of line
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011210/tc/attack_tech_dc.html Antiv
irus Firms Say They Won't Create FBI Loophole
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02914.html >Politech: Symantec, McAfee
backpedal furiously on espionage enabled-software
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02918.html >Politech: More on Symantec,
McAfee, loopholes, and espionage-enabled 'ware
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8134814.html?tag=rltdnws >Antivir
us firms balk at FBI loophole
Existence of Magic Lantern Confirmed by FBI
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8160201.html?tag=mn_hd>FBI
confirms "Magic Lantern" project exists
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100652,00.html >FBI
confirms Net spying tool exists
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127639 Infamous hacker group helps the Feds
[this one may be nothing more than humor or hoax... on the other
hand, the related article: http://www.vnunet.com/News/87346 >Back
Orifice just a phantom seems (at first glance) to be consistent with
other articles regarding BO2K.]
Magic Lantern's Closest Relatives?
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2072609,00.html>ZDNet: Back Orifice
2.0
http://pcrev.com/articles/trojan/pindex.shtml >Back Orifice
(incorrectly referred to in this article as "Back Office") and other
trojans
http://www.vnunet.com/News/87346 >Back Orifice just a phantom
http://www.codexdatasystems.com/ >D.I.R.T. - A prototype for Magic Lantern?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19480.html >Or is D.I.R.T. a S.C.A.M?
http://cryptome.org/dirty-secrets2.htm >Dirty Secrets 2 - Data
Interception by Remote Transmission
http://jya.com/DIRT-spy.htm >D.I.R.T. being used to grab PGP keys as
early as 1998
http://www.keylogger.net/ >Ghost - A Software Keylogger
http://www.keykatcher.com/ >KEYKatcher - Hardware Keyloggers
Can we trust LEAs?
http://www.politechbot.com/p-00624.html>Illegal LAPD wiretaps -- for
shame! by John Gilmore
http://www.politechbot.com/p-00628.html>More on LAPD and illegal wiretaps
http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/4377-1.html >Will the
Government Know What You Type?
http://www.onmagazine.com/on-mag/reviews/article/0,9985,12609,00.html
 >The Privacy Snatchers
http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/ The Electronic Privacy
Information Center's extensive resources on wiretapping cases
http://cryptome.org/dirty-secrets.htm >US Ambassador on Corruption
Within Security Forces
http://www.msnbc.com/news/646793.asp?cp1=1 First, brand all the children...
By Brock N. Meeks
Potential ways to detect (or protect against) Magic Lantern?
http://spycop.com >Spycop
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/8839/utils.html >Hook
Protect or PC Security Guard
Warning: This page contains a possible "web bug" per Bugnosis
http://www.stiller.com >Integrity Master from Stiller Research
http://www.openantivirus.org/ OpenAntiVirus Project
http://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG (The GNU Privacy Guard)
http://www.jetico.com Jetico's BestCrypt
http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/go.shtml?A660528 Evidence Eliminator
www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=...