My Comment on MSNBC/Countdown Website

Mr. Olbermann,

As a faithful watcher of Countdown, I know that you have first-hand experience with the anthrax scare. I can only imagine the terror you must have felt.
There have been some new developments of this story over the weekend that should remind us all what we have been through. As much as the Bush administration would like us to consider the anthrax mystery solved to clean the slate for November, there is an elephant in the room.

Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html
Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/03/journalism/index.html

When I tune in on Monday, I truly hope you keep the anthrax/inside job story squarely in focus. I really want to know: who told ABC News the blatant lie that the anthrax was linked to Iraq? The outright lies they carefully constructed to manipulate us all should no longer be protected by confidentiality privileges. I anxiously await your commentary on this.

-Albany, NY

It is awaiting moderator approval at
http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/01/1242443.aspx

good letter.

Avoiding confusing morass of conspiracy and coincidence, aim at one incriminating detail.

Very Bugliosi-like.

From Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation, Glenn Greenwald:


I hope Jonathan Alter is speaking with Olbermann now, about how to react with this. I've seen Alter on Countdown often, so I hope that he is part of the current discussion. According to the editorial, Alter was responsible for revealing a confidential source of another Newsweek reporter at Newsweek. Alter performed his journalist duty despite disdain, and threats of lawsuits, from some of his colleagues, according to the article. Thanks to Alter we now know that the "protected" source was none other than Oliver North.