https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/attempted-murder-at-fort-detrick-bio-lab-halts-operations/

Attempted Murder at Fort Detrick Bio-Lab Halts Operations
Sabotage, negligence, and a ridiculous management contract

By John Leake

Ever since the anthrax letter attacks on September 18, 2001, the U.S. Bio-Lab at Fort Detrick has struck me as emblematic of U.S. government recklessness and unaccountability.

Recall that, on that day, letters containing anthrax spores arrived at news media offices and at the offices of senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, who were leading opposition to the Patriot Act.

These attacks killed five people and infected seventeen others. The result of the attacks was that the U.S. military’s anthrax vaccine program—which had been halted the previous June due to safety concerns—was resuscitated, and on June 28, 2002, all military personnel were again required to receive the vaccine.

The attacks were staged to appear to be the work of either Iraqi agents or Islamic terrorists. However, FBI quickly ascertained that they weren’t the work of a foreign adversary, but had most likely been committed by someone working in U.S. bio-security.

After years of dithering and obfuscation, the FBI finally announced (in 2008) they’d been perpetrated by Bruce Edwards Ivins, a scientist working at Fort Detrick’s biodefense lab.

Ivins was angry and desperate because the anthrax vaccine program to which he’d dedicated his life’s work was cancelled in June 2001. And so, he took it upon himself to “show” the U.S. government and American people just how much they needed his vaccine.

What is especially perfidious about this incident is that—although the FBI knew the attacks were not the work of a foreign adversary—the DoD still used the attacks as a pretext for resuscitating the anthrax vaccine program, thereby enabling Ivins’s gambit to succeed. ......