TrebleRebel, if you wanted clarification of Dr. A’s phrasing, you should have emailed him. It makes no sense instead to attack him publicly for a half decade using Ed as his proxy. Both of you are wrong, moreoever, to think it makes any sense, even if ineptly, to discuss how best to weaponize anthrax.
The role of the webposter, respectfully, is more limited.
For example, did Battelle have Ames? Yes.
Transfer records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act show that USAMRIID, which is located in Frederick, shared the Ames strain last March with scientists at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, an Albuquerque research institute, and in May and June with the Battelle Memorial Institute, a Columbus, Ohio, corporation involved in anthrax vaccine and biodefense research.
Did Battelle in Columbus use the dry form? No. The dry form was only used at Dugway — at the Battelle Life Science facility there in Utah used for that purpose.
Was silica detected? Yes. See AFIP’s report.
So should any product that is held to be a close approximation should a similar spike on an EDX? Yes.
Should the product look like the SEMS Ed points to (rather than the ones pictured in the aerosol study that Dr. Rebel is point at?) Yes.
Now, beyond that, let FBI Director Mueller take it from here. He was channelling Jack McCoy himself when he told the House Judiciary Committee that they had identified Al Qaeda affiliates and cells in the US but that he couldn’t talk about it in open session.
To see what he said, you need to click here:
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
If you think the FBI are doing such a superb job why do you even comment on the investigation? Why not just put yourself in their very capable hands and go shopping at the mall with the comforting knowledge that they will keep you safe?