Anthrax letters. What happened to that story?

You never hear about it. When the media does mention it's always as a footnote to a September 11th story.

I bet most 'Murikans have forgotten about the anthrax attacks and murders.

Everybody who has followed that one knows it. The strain of anthrax was not only traced back to the gummint, it was traced back to a specific lab, the high level containment bioweapons lab at Ft. Detrick. The FBI has shut that lab down twice, going over it, but has been completely stonewalled by the CIA bioweapons group that runs it.

There is no way weaponized anthrax can be handled safely outside a high level containment facility. Once it's exposed to air, it will quickly volatize throughout the area, causing massive environmental contamination and illnesses. We didn't see that, did we? The targets were all very specific: a photographer who embarrassed the Bush twins, Democratic Congressmen, and Tom Brokaw.

They were quick to howl that it HAD to have been an Iraqi plot, that Hussein had been given anthrax by Poppy in the 80s. Unfortunately, the strain was different and Iraq's attempts to weaponize the stuff using bentonite to decrease the unwanted qualities of the exterior coating on the bacteria had gone nowhere.

The right was very nearly able to shut Congress down. They did shut down the House, but the Senate had already gotten a bare
Democratic majority thanks to Jeffords, and they were unable to do the job completely. The Democrats wouldn't cave.

There you have it: a weaponized agent that was traced to a containment lab and couldn't have been handled outside it, targets who were chosen because of their threat to the Bush family empire, and the first executive branch coup attempt.

Inside job. Oh, yeah.

After he destroyed all the extra viles of anthrax laying around his office. :tinfoilhat:

the Democratic Party, one answer is found on the envelopes of those letters.

George Monbiot, more than four years ago:

In December, the Washington Post reported that genetic tests showed that the variety used by the terrorist was a sub-strain cultivated by scientists at the US army's medical research institute for infectious diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. That finding was publicly confirmed two weeks ago, when the test results were published in the journal Science. New Scientist magazine notes that the anthrax the terrorist used appears to have emerged from Fort Detrick only recently, as the researchers found that samples which have been separated from each other for three years acquire "substantial genetic differences".

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Last week, I phoned the FBI. Why, I asked, when the evidence was so abundant, did the trail appear to have gone cold? "The investigation is continuing," the spokesman replied. "Has it gone cold because it has led you to a government office?" I asked. He put down the phone.

Had he stayed on the line, I would have asked him about a few other offenses the FBI might wish to consider. The army's development of weaponized anthrax, for example, directly contravenes both the biological weapons convention and domestic law. So does its plan to test live microbes in "aerosol chambers" at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, also in Maryland. So does its development of a genetically modified fungus for attacking coca crops in Colombia, and GM bacteria for destroying materials belonging to enemy forces. These, as the research group Project Sunshine has discovered, appear to be just a tiny sample of the illegal offensive biological research programs which the US government has secretly funded. Several prominent scientists have suggested that the FBI's investigation is being pursued with less than the rigor we might have expected because the federal authorities have something to hide.

The FBI has dismissed them as conspiracy theorists. But there is surely a point after which incompetence becomes an insufficient explanation for failure.

Never to be seen again. And so what, it was only liberals that suffered from it, plus a few postal workers, and they are cheep.

Just like NORAD was told to 'stand down' while 911 was happening. Massive crimes that will never be solved due to 'conflict of interest' issues in the Executive Branch. That it was the Dem leadership makes it obvious as to why.

Motive
Motive
Motive

I don't know if it was an "official" assasination or just a freeper janitor at the lab, but the FBI looked everywhere except the obvious.

since 911 and they go unchallenged! First is it a lie, we were attacked after 911
It's never been proved that those attacks were related to 911, they remain unsolved just like Osama is still at large, and by stating this publiclly it brings those very weird events back into focus.

Dems need to have rapid response on this one.

Someone have a cystal ball at the WH? Cipro is an antidote not a preventitive drug to avoid infection.

Years? It was even reported they were taking Cipro before the Anthrax attacks...guess the FBI can't investigate their boss. :(