pasties but only on the front of the magazines. now hugh hefner is having his playmates put on their clothes and convince readers to read playboy for the articles. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news just in a military lab makes a massive mistake that could have very easily turned into a lethal blunder. an army facility shipped a live sample of anthrax, the fatal substance that killed five people in a terrorist attack in 2001. let s get right to cnn s barbara starr at the pentagon. this is one of the deadliest pathogens in existence and it was just sent out for delivery like anything else? how did this happen? reporter: that is the question, jake, at this hour. that the centers for disease control and the pentagon are trying to answer. here s what happened apparently last friday. some anthrax was shipd.
deputy spokeswoman about the isis threat and more. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by as we cover all the stories breaking right now. first, let s go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she has the very latest, barbara barbara? wolf on this anthrax mistake, the pentagon is insisting it doesn t know of anybody who is sick but the scope of this mistake is growing by the hour. here s how it all started last friday at the dugway proving ground in utah an army facility. a batch of anthrax was shipped out for research purposes. it went to nine states. it was supposed to be dead agent. not live anthrax. a lab in maryland reports they got live agent from the pentagon. now they are looking at the samples across eight states. agent also went to korea, u.s. forces in korea. they already have destroyed the sample they got because they believe it was likely to be live agent by mistake.
my military advice, i balanced the risk of transferring the detainees with the importance of returning a u.s. soldier from enemy captivity. i concluded the risk posed by the detainee s future activity would be less grave than breaking faith with our forces in combat. and we heard that over and over throughout many of these letters, that ultimately, this code, the military code of leaving no soldier behind outweighed any of the risks involved. and all of this very significant, don, because we are told that sergeant bowe bergdahl is nearing the end of his phase three reintegration treatment down at the army facility in san antonio, texas. and over the course of the next couple weeks, we ll again hearing what the army will do with bowe bergdahl next in that investigation, scheduled to meet with the investigators at some point. all of that has been kind of on hold while the army investigates in other ways. but really we ll start to hear much more about bowe bergdahl s future in the coming
point, carol. my aunt, who claims to have seen the property regularly, she seemed assumed that because of the proximity to pakistan s west point, she just thought it was another army facility. so i think that helped him hide better. people were a lot less suspicious of a property like that. they just assume maybe it s a military facility. interesting. very interesting. but, of course, the investigation will go on about the intelligence of the government and could possibly not know that osama bin laden was living among them. very interesting stuff. maria ansari, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. a u.s. born cleric says they may sue american airlines for stopping him and his two sons from boarding a flight. american airlines has issued a written statement. it says, there was no ill intent on the part of any of our
the area down the coast on the road to tripoli in eastern libya. in addition, there seems to be an air strike on an army facility in the town that s about a two-hour drive west of benghazi. we were in that area yesterday, and certainly there were sort of tensions were high about the possibility of some sort of counterattack, but what we saw was that the opposition forces, despite a lot of enthusiasm, didn t have much in the way of heavy armament or organization in the event of this expected attack were to take place. i know it s a little difficult to get any information right now. and a lot of it is conflicting. but are you hearing anything about the extent of clashes or anything about the extent of casualties? no word on casualties. i did speak to somebody who