Professor Graeme MacQueen joins the show to discuss his book The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy. MacQueen's book presents evidence to support the following points: (a) The anthrax attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a “lone wolf.” The attacks were, therefore, the result of a conspiracy—by definition a plan by two or more people, made in secret and resulting in an immoral or illegal act. (b) The group that carried out this crime consisted, in whole or in part, of insiders deep within the US state apparatus. (c) These insiders were the same people who planned the 9/11 attacks (d) The anthrax attacks were meant to facilitate a seizure of power by the executive branch of government through intimidation of Congress and US civil society. They were also designed to achieve public acquiescence to and support for the redefinition of US foreign policy, replacing the Cold War with a new and aggressive global conflict framework, the Global War on Terror.
Graeme MacQueen is a retired member of the Religious Studies Department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He received his doctorate in Buddhist Studies, from Harvard University. In 1989, MacQueen helped found McMaster’s Centre for Peace Studies, which he directed from 1989-1996. He is now the co-editor of The Journal of 9/11 Studies.