So the lid of "incompetence" is banged desperately down on the "botched" investigation into what even the corporate media cannot deny was an unprecedented false-flag WMD attack on the US Congress and the media itself commenced within a week of 9/11.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5276220
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121478249006714421.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The Wall Street Journal reminds us that "9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told a military tribunal he was "directly in charge" of "managing and following up on the Cell for the Production of Biological Weapons, such as anthrax and others", and concludes that "this fiasco shows the limits of bureaucratic law enforcement in fighting terror."

But as the neocon media assets strain to disguise an obvious cover-up as the need to remove more "gloves", there remains the ineradicable stench of another "coincidence" involving one Lt. Col. Philip Zack.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index.html

"Assaad believes there is a possible link between the person who sent the unsigned letter to the FBI and the terrorist who sent anthrax to Democratic politicians and prominent members of the media. Whoever it was seemed to display eerie foreknowledge of the biological attacks, since the letter was sent to the FBI well before any anthrax terror attacks were known to the public."

"Before the investigation ended, both Zack and Rippy were reprimanded. Then Zack left USAMRIID in December 1991, first heading to the Army's Walter Reed Institute, then going to the private pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, and then to a company in Colorado acquired by St. Louis' Nexstar Financial Management. Several calls by Salon to his last known phone number and address in Boulder, Colo., went unreturned, and Nexstar says it no longer has any record of Zack. Rippy, who left USAMRIID shortly after Zack, in February 1992, worked for a while at Eli Lilly, but could not be located by Salon."

"Assaad is puzzled that after clearing him of the accusation that he could be a bioterrorist, the FBI showed no interest in talking with him about his days at Fort Detrick. "The whole world wants to talk to me, except the FBI," he said, as his lawyer's phones rang nonstop this week, with media organizations seeking interviews with him. "Something's wrong here."

For some reason, Rozen declines to name "a company in Colorado" where Zack was employed. And of course Nexstar "no longer has any record of Zack".

But perhaps this obscure scientific paper can provide a clue.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=937680

"Auteur(s) / Author(s)
DROLET Daniel W. (1) ; NELSON Joyce (2) ; TUCKER Christopher E. (1) ; ZACK Philip M. (1) ; NIXON Kerry (2) ; BOLIN Richard (1) ; JUDKINS Mark B. (2) ; FARMER James A. (2) ; WOLF Julie L. (1) ; GILL Stanley C. (1) ; BENDELE Raymond A. (1) ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Gilead Sciences Inc., 2860 Wilderness Place, Boulder, CO 80301, ETATS-UNIS
(2) Sierra Biomedical, 587 Dunn Circle, Sparks, NV 89431, ETATS-UNIS"

So "a company in Colorado" is Gilead Sciences. And what is interesting about Gilead Sciences? In 2000, when this paper was published, Gilead was under the Chairmanship of one Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, the same PNAC signatory who "could not be reached" by the NMCC on 9/11 and later regaled us with tales of Saddam's WMD.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld

"Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld."

Is this why Cheney's staff was given a prophylactic dose of Cipro on 9/11?

Is the trail really "cold", Agent Garrett? Tell me truly, I implore.