{"product_id":"9780986073120","title":"The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy","description":"The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killing\u003cp\u003efive and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. They\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentury who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small states\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith WMD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esupplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the US\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emilitary and intelligence communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe FBI rapidly began a search for \"the anthrax killer,\" promoting the idea that there was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea lone wolf perpetrator within the military community--a renegade, an unbalanced person\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army Medical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearch Institute of Infectious Diseases as the \"anthrax killer.\" Ivins had conveniently\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edied a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great deal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof evidence the following four assertions:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a “lone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewolf;”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deep\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einsiders within the U.S. state apparatus;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(c) these insiders were connected to the perpetrators of the 9\/11 attacks;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(d) the anthrax attacks were meant to play an important role in the strategy of redefinition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal War on Terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarity Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034766885104,"sku":"9780986073120","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986073120_p0.jpg?v=1763887953","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986073120","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}