60 Minutes to air segment on TX scientist and plague vials. Sunday.

[madfloridian]

Texas Plague Expert says FBI Tricked Him

SNIP..."Butler said government agents pressured him to sign a statement that he had destroyed the vials, even though he does not believe he did. Butler said he cannot account for the vials.

"They told me I would not be charged if I were able to confirm the accidental destruction," said Butler, a Texas Tech university professor who was working on an antidote to plague...."END SNIP

[Jackpine Radical]

1. So I got out my tinfoil hat and started thinking...

Maybe the FBI or some other DOJ types have those vials. Maybe they're threatening people with them, or planning another MIHOP.

Maybe these ideas don't make any sense. Maybe it's something else. Maybe they're going to show up as WMD in Iraq.

Who the fuck knows?

Any other theories?

[madfloridian]

2. Here is more from Lubbock, TX on this. Sounds weird.

Something is NOT right about this story. I will definitely watch the airing on this Sunday.
http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=1458054

SNIP..."Regardless, Judge Cummings said Butler's confession can be used against him in federal court.

Supporters of Butler upset with the decision. "I think the FBI is barking up the wrong tree. I think they're trying to prosecute someone who's done nothing but take care of patients. This is like a train. When it gets going, you can't stop it. Now, this has all become a circus," said Sharie Patty, long time friend of Butler....."



:tinfoilhat:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. Remember the Chinese-American scientist, and the guy they tried to...

...convict in the press about the so-called anthrax attacks? This is just more of the same.

[proud patriot]

11. Yeah they showed him in the segment n/t

[Wonk]

3. more...

Nov 12, 2001ÑMar 25, 2002: 13 renowned microbiologists mysteriously die over the span of less than five months. All but one or two are killed or murdered under unusual circumstances. Some are world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others are the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others are experts in the theory of bioterrorism. Nov 12: Benito Que, 52, an expert in infectious diseasesÑkilled in carjacking, later deemed possible stroke. Nov. 16: Don Wiley, 57, one of the world's leading researchers of deadly virusesÑbody found in Mississippi River. Nov 21: Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, an expert in adapting germs and viruses for military useÑstroke. Dec 10: Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, a leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysisÑslain at home. Dec 14: Nguyen Van Set, 44, his research organization had just come to fame for discovering a virus which can be modified to affect smallpoxÑdies in an airlock in his lab. Jan 2002: Ivan Glebov (bandit attack) and Alexi Brushlinski (killed in Moscow), both world-renowned members of the Russian Academy of Science. Feb 9: Victor Korshunov, 56, head of the microbiology sub-faculty at the Russian State Medical UniversityÑkilled by cranial injury. Feb 11: Ian Langford, 40, one of Europe's leading experts on environmental riskÑmurdered in home. Feb 28 (2): Tanya Holzmayer, 46, helped create drugs that interfere with replication of the virus that causes AIDS, and Guyang Huang, 38, a brilliant scholar highly regarded in geneticsÑmurder/suicide. Mar 24: David Wynn-Williams, 55, an astrobiologist with NASA Ames Research CenterÑkilled while jogging. Mar 25: Steven Mostow, 63, an expert on the threat of bioterrorismÑprivate plane crash.

Source with more links (scroll down)
http://www.wanttoknow.info/911timeline10pg

[Wonk]

4. On now (kick)

[Wonk]

5. Another link

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/17/60minutes/main578660.shtml

[Wonk]

7. Time zone kick

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. If Butler has those vials

why would he notify the FBI that some were missing??? That would be a stoooopid thing to do for such an intelligent man, eh? He has a good attorney, that's for sure.

This whole thing is scary. They carry vials of the plague on airplanes??? What if that plane crashes in a highly populated area? Damn.

Oh boy! Corporate Shelters coming up!

[Wonk]

8. mp3 here for those who missed it

3 M

[Wonk]

9. quicktime video here for broadband DUers who missed it

36 M