Chemical/Biological warfare and the neocons

In the comments to a story below, a helpful reader directs our attention to Laura Rozen's story about the latest hijinx of Neil Livingston, the security expert whose name you may recall from the bad old days of Iran-contra.

These days, Neil runs a firm charmingly named ExecutiveAction. His customers include the daughter of the thug running Uzbekistan (where political opponents get boiled), an (accused) Russian mobster named Simeon Mogilevich, and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone.

Those civic-minded folks at Executive Action now want to warn us of the anthrax problem.

ExecutiveAction today announced it will hold a press conference on Wednesday, November 14, at 10:30 a.m. at the National Press Club to release the threat assessment – Spores: The Threat of a Catastrophic Anthrax Attack on America. At the press conference will be:

Neil Livingstone – CEO of ExecutiveAction and one of the nation’s top terrorism experts. R. James Woolsey – Former Director of the CIA and Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton. Professor Yonah Alexander – Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University and author of more than 90 books on terrorism and international affairs. David Wright – CEO of PharmAthene, a biodefense company headquartered in Annapolis.

Sound familiar? Scroll down a few posts until you get to the one about Dr. Jill Dekkers, the very odd CBW scientist who spoke at the intelligence conference put together by John Loftus. Bottom line: She's trying to convince the world that Iran and Syria are getting ready to unleash WMDs, a song we've heard before.

Woolsey was supposed to pop up at that shindig as well, but he bowed out when folks learned that the money-man behind it was Russian-Israeli racketeer Michael Chernoy. Strange, isn't it? Whenever we look closely at these spooked-up neocons, we find shady Russians skulking in the shadows...

Now, I would never question Neil Livingston's right to call himself a terror expert. I'm sure his buddies in Uzbekistan can give him all sorts of ideas as to how to terrorize people. So how much you wanna bet that ExecutiveAction will finger Syria and/or Iran as the bad guy in the new anthrax scare?