"Anthrax War" Filmmakers on Capitol Hill
Thu., Jun. 04, 2009 Filed in: global/national
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by William Hughes
On June 3, 2009, filmmakers Eric Nadler and Bob Coen held a congressional screening, in the Canon Office Building, of their documentary "Anthrax War." They are also coauthors of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, a companion book to the film. Trailers for the documentary and more detailed information about the investigative project of Nadler and Coen, which was conducted on a global scale, can be found at www.anthraxwar.com. According to Nadler, the deadly anthrax attacks in the days following 9/11 sparked a boom in bio-defense which is now a $50 billion industry in the U.S. This huge entity, "a cash cow," the authors underscored, has been largely privatized and is operating with little oversight.