alinterest.com/Articles/Powell%27s%20UN%20Speech/Powell%27s%20UN%20speech%20ermarth.html. Ermarth’s remarks were also posted by Laurie Mylroie, “Fritz Ermarth, Iraq & Al Qaeda, In The National Interest,” February 5, 2003, http://www.mail-archive.com/sam11@erols.com/msg00040.html.
46. Anna Leander, “The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies,” Millennium—Journal of International Studies 33 (2005): 803, emphasis added. At the time, the Observer reported from “sources in the Bush administration” an allegation that “members of the al-Qaeda network, detained and interrogated in Cairo, had obtained phials of anthrax in the Czech Republic” (“Iraq ‘behind US Anthrax Outbreaks,’” Observer, October 14, 2001, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/terrorism.afghanistan6).
47. Chaim Kaufmann, “Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas,” International Security, Summer 2004, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/interna
tional_security/v029/29.1kaufmann.html. Neither SAIC nor Diligence is mentioned in his essay.
48. Shorrock, Spies for Hire, 36–37.
49. Marilyn W. Thompson, “The Pursuit of Steven Hatfill,” Washington Post, September 14, 2003 (Hatfill-SAIC). At the time, Laurie Mylroie said on CNN that “it takes a highly sophisticated agency to produce anthrax in the lethal form. Not many parties can do that.” Saddam Hussein “continues his part of the war in the form of terrorism. It is unlikely that anthrax will remain in letters. It is likely that it will be used in the subway of a city, or in the ventilation system of a U.S. building. Saddam wants revenge against us. He wants to do to the U.S. what we’ve done to Iraq” (CNN, October 29, 2001, http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/29/mylroie).
50. Glenn Greenwald, “Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News,” Salon, August 1, 2008, http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/
anthrax.
51. Cf. Time, November 26, 2001: “While Daschle, the Senate majority leader, could have been chosen as a representative of all Democrats or of the entire Senate, Leahy is a less obvious choice, most likely targeted for a specific reason. He is head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is involved in issues ranging from antitrust action to antiterror legislation” (emphasis added). See also Anthony York, “Why Daschle and Leahy?” Salon, November 21, 2001, http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2001/11/21/anthrax/index.html.
52. Shorrock, Spies for Hire, 344.
53. Julian Assange, “The Spy Who Billed Me Twice,” Wikileaks, http://wikileaks
.org/wiki/The_spy_who_billed_me_twice. The March 2009 army manual “US Army Concept of Operations for Police Intelligence Operations” contains phrases such as “It [fusion] does not have constraints that are emplaced on MI [military intelligence] activities within the US, because it operates under the auspice and oversight of the police discipline and standards.”
54. Phil Leggiere, “Napolitano Praises Fusion Centers,” HSToday, March 13, 2009, http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/7616/149.
55. Assange, “The Spy Who Billed Me Twice.”
56. “Cheney Firm Won $3.8bn Contracts from Government,” Observer, July 21, 2002, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/21/globalisation.georgebush.
57. Novyi Region, November 27–30, 2006: English summary in “U.S. Companies Linked to Vice-President Cheney Supervised the Transfar of Ukrainian WMD to Iran,” Left.ru, http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/novyiregion.phtml.
58. PravdaInfo, September 2, 2005, http://www.pravda.info/news/3601.html.
59. Yuri Yasenev, “Rossiyu zhdet oranzhevaya revolytsiya” (“An Orange Revolution Is in Store for Russia”), compromat.ru, December 17, 2004, http://www
.compromat.ru/main/surikov/saidov.htm; partial translation at http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/yasenev_en.phtml: Yasenev implied that in 2003–2004, Georgia Far West had worked with KBR on the two Rose Revolutions that ousted Shevardnadze and installed Georgia’s present ruler, Saakashvili (Peter Dale Scott, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11,” Lobster, October 29, 2005, http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm).
60. “—Vladimir Ilyich [Filin], is it true that Americans are involved in drug business?
