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18 Jul 2022
Alex Jones's claims about secret meetings predicting mass casualties stem from a Johns Hopkins tabletop exercise in June 2001.

And so, for the meeting of the media and the joint chiefs, this took a little while to sort out what I think is going on, but I'm pretty confident about this. And that is on June 22nd and 23rd, 2001, Johns Hopkins held a tabletop exercise where they simulated a biological terrorist attack that used smallpox as the agent in the fictional scenario. This fits a lot of the details that Alex was talking about, and some of the participants in the exercise included members of the press, like Judith Miller from the New York Times and Mary Walsh from CBS News. It also included people who had policy experience taking on the roles of people in important government positions. For instance, David Gergen played the national security advisor in the scenario, although he was not the national security advisor. And General John Talelli stood in as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the scenario. Sure. And unfortunately, a high percentage of Alex's narratives about reality come from selectively misrepresenting things that people do in scenario exercises. So I'm going to bet that this is where he's pulling that stuff from. Yeah, that's locksteppy enough for me.