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13 May 2007

So who mailed all that anthrax around? - am I the only one who wonders this every so often? This 'loose end'/unfinished story really bugs me.

post by: dabitch at: 16:19 | 14 comments

I'm pretty sure it was jonmc. He's a big fan.

posted by Eideteker 13 May | 16:45

C.I.A.

posted by arse_hat 13 May | 17:04

Iraq. That's why we're there; Jeez, don't you pay attention?

posted by klangklangston 13 May | 17:10

I'm pretty sure it was the company that sells anthrax detectors to the post office. Those machines weren't selling at all after a few envelopes in the mail. BINGO. Multimillion dollar contract for that company.

posted by birdherder 13 May | 17:27

I think the chances are good that the FBI did catch the perp and then classified the issue so as to conceal the bugs' origin. I hope I live another forty years just to see what gets declassified from the last six years. Of course, if Hillary gets a hardon to prosecute Bush, that all may surface much sooner.

Come to think of it, I would vote for any Democrat next year who promises to investigate Bush and his entire cabinet and prosecute any and all violations of federal regulations, both major and minor.

posted by mischief 13 May | 18:18

I hope I live another forty years just to see what gets declassified from the last six years.

I've thought about this too... there are going to be skeletons popping out of closets for at least a generation.

posted by BoringPostcards 13 May | 19:14

I constantly think about that anthrax thing, seriously. And the only conclusion I can come to is that the government is out to get us.

I am not joking. But the thing is, what is the best way for me to make my tinfoil hat? Should I make it like one of those paper sailor's hats, or should I make it more like a cap?

posted by brina 13 May | 22:12

I had a feeling it might have been that South African guy.

posted by brujita 13 May | 22:44

The official line seems to be 'don't worry your pretty little head about it'.
Connolly: Earlier you testified that regarding the scientific aspect of the investigation there was information that was simply in your view too sensitive to share to the public about the particular characteristics of the organism sent in the mail. Is that correct?

Adams: In so many words, yes, sir.

Connolly: I don't want to mischaracterize it. If you think I've mischaracterized it in any way then, please, put your own words on it.

Adams: No, that's fine.

Connolly: Did you feel like you had the same restrictions in informing the senate, congress, or their staff in terms of what it is you would reveal to them about the particular characteristics of the organism that was sent?

Adams: As I've already stated there was specific information that I did not feel appropriate to share with either the media or to the Hill because it was too sensitive of the information to do so.

Which for some reason doesn't fill me with confidence.

posted by asok 14 May | 04:24

Nice use fo teh blockquote tag!

posted by asok 14 May | 04:25

It's the 'don't worry your pretty little head about it' that really makes it stick to my pretty little head.

posted by dabitch 14 May | 04:40

karl rove, probably

posted by Wedge 14 May | 05:05

I think about the anthrax attacks every time someone in the Bush administration claims we haven't been attacked since September 11, 2001, and the media doesn't call them on it. President Bush initially called it "a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country." Later he said Americans "wondered if there was a second wave of attacks still to come."

But it shouldn't be a surprise, since terrorists who kill Americans in the United States get a pass from the Bush administration (see also: Osama bin Laden).

Ed Lake's Analyzing the Anthrax Attacks site is obsessively detailed.

posted by kirkaracha 14 May | 12:48

Some recent developments: New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt is accusing the FBI of stonewalling and asking for a report on the investigation.

Steven Hatfill, the widely known "person of interest" in the case, is suing the FBI.

posted by kirkaracha 14 May | 13:10

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