Yeah, include the word “Parker” and “mistake” in the same sentence and spin that into Parker saying: “we thought there was silica but we made a mistake”. The same page from your usual playbook.
Parker only said that they decided to call the powder highly energetic instead of weaponized.
Parker VERY CLEARLY AND IN PLAIN ENGLISH said they found silica. AFIP said in EVEN PLAINER ENGLISH the silica was there as a key aerosol-enabling component.
Don't you get tired of distorting the same facts over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over?
General Parker also said other things immediately after they learned that there was silicon and oxygen in the Daschle anthrax.
It's interesting that Preston's book says that "by lunchtime" on October 25, 2001, AFIP had determined "that there were two extra elements in the spores: silicon and oxygen."
And, at 12:55 P.M. EDT on that same day this was said at a press conference:
Q General Parker, can we ask you a question, sir? If you wouldn't mind stepping up to the podium. I take it that some of the tests that you were alluding to are on this chemical agent that's been mixed in with the anthrax to modify the electro-static properties of the anthrax. Can you tell us what your preliminary investigation shows about that? And who has the ability to alter the electro-static properties of anthrax spores?
MAJOR GENERAL PARKER: Well, first of all, your question is complex, and I'd like to say that, although we may see some things on the microscopic field that may look like foreign elements, we don't know that they're additives, we don't know what they are, and we're continuing to do research to find out what they possible could be. They're unknowns to us at this present time.
Q Can you tell us who has the ability to alter the electro-static properties of anthrax spores in order to allow them to become more easily aerosolized?
MAJOR GENERAL PARKER: Sir, that's beyond my knowledge. I don't know.