It’s not the case that he totally accepted BHR’s beliefs. They arrived at their bioevangelist theory independently, and then you followed suit the next month.
The order that Professor Rosenberg, Ed, and Professor Boyle arrived at their “bioevangelist”/anthrax-was-to-help-pass-the-Patriot-Act theory is as follows:
Boyle
Rosenberg
Lake
But it’s basically the same sound-the-alarm theory. They should have a group hug.
After describing how he decided it was by a US-biodefense insider when he read the late October press about its sophistication, Professor Boyle explains the timeline:
“This was just before I ran the CRG workshop at Harvard on Biowarfare the first weekend in November. There my colleague Jonathan King, Professor of Microbiology at MIT and the head of their electron-microscope lab, publicly stated the same exact conclusion independently of me. He had reached the exact same conclusion that I had. Likewise Dr. Barbara Rosenberg who is now with the Federation of American Scientists, independent of both King and me later reached the exact same conclusion: that whoever did this was working for the United States government now, in the Pentagon or the CIA or had in the immediate past, and must have had access to a U.S. biowarfare lab. I was interviewed on FOX, I was interviewed on BBC World Service and I was interviewed on Pacific Network in Washington DC.”
In an April 2002 lecture he explained:
“I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind this attack and they have probably concluded that yes, it was someone who was currently involved in illegal and criminal biological warfare research by the United States government. Either the Pentagon or the CIA or one of their private contractors. And for that reason they are not going to apprehend and they are not going to indict him because obviously he would spill the beans on the whole thing and implicate the Pentagon, CIA, whoever is behind this. So this is where we are today, where the FBI says we are working on it, but of course, that is ridiculous.”
So, ironically, he’s right about access to know-how — just wrong in his speculation about motive.
In an earlier post or two, I had spelled Professor Boyle’s name wrong. First name is Francis. Apologies.
Ah! At last you post something worth reading. Thank you!
But it’s basically the same sound-the-alarm theory.
Hardly. Boyle is saying the purpose of the anthrax attack was "to foment a police state by killing off opposition to hardline post-9/11 legislation."
That's not even remotely similar to saying the attacks were made by a private citizen who feared that Muslims terrorists living around him could launch a bioweapons attack at any moment.