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"Anthrax War" Filmmakers on Capitol Hill
As a result of the deadly anthrax attacks in the days following 9/11, the Bush-Cheney Gang created a $57 billion Bio-Terrorism Military Industrial Complex. This huge entity, "a cash cow," the authors underscored, has been mostly "privatized," and is also operating "with little oversight." Anthrax War
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On the evening after the 9/11 attacks, some White House personnel, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s staff, are given the anti-anthrax drug Cipro, and told to take it regularly. [Associated Press, 10/24/2001] An unnamed “high government official” also advises some reporters to take Cipro shortly after 9/11 (see Shortly After September 11, 2001). Judicial Watch will later sue the Bush administration to release documents showing who knew what and when, and why presidential staff were protected while senators, congresspeople, and others were not. [Associated Press, 6/9/2002]
See: Evening, September 11, 2001: White House Staff, Including Cheney’s, Start Taking Anthrax Antibiotic Cipro
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