You might enjoy Ari Fleischer’s book.
The reason he was so adamant to debunk the early ABC bentonite report was that there was no aluminum. He deemed it the most important (wrong) story in his career.
Author Larsen, who wrote the book the subject of this thread, explains (p. 50-55) that early on a CIA analyst opined to the WH that Saddam would not cooperate with a terror group by giving them anthrax because we knew where Saddam lived.
Whatever the prospects of such a theory when Freeper The Great Satan had a webpage making the argument, it is now made only of the very cheapest tin foil from the dollar store. (He had argued that the elaborate Hatfill civil litigation was an elaborate intelligence ruse involving many players in the conspiracy, such as the federal prosecutors and federal judge; he argued that FBI agents whose name appeared in the press actually did not exist, and if you would call FBI headquarters and get the agent on the phone, he would see it as confirmation of the elaborate ruse). It is not treasonous to think that the invasion of Iraq made the world less safe — it is the consensus view of intelligence analysts, who add that it was all predictable (Clarke, Scheuer etc.) Scheuer says the President should have given authority for the bombing of Ansar.
As a matter of logic, there is no reason to think Saddam would be involved and risk retaliation when a moderate-sounding, pious Iraqi Salafist working with Bin Laden’s sheik had infiltrated the US biodefense establishment and shared a fax and high security clearance with famed Russian bioweaponeer Ken and former USAMRIID head Charles Bailey. In the next post below, I will quote the author Larsen’s organization September 2000 interview with Ken Alibek on whether OBL could ever produce a high quality (Alibek-type) powderized anthrax. It was a year before — in September 2000. And a year and a half after Ayman first announced, through proxies, he intended to use anthrax. The announcement was made at the time of the March 1999 calls where strategy was being mapped out with the blind sheik (through telephone conference calls with his proxy).