So how is that Anthrax investigation going?

[lateo]

Ummm yeah...

[cynatnite]

1. What anthrax investigation?

:sarcasm: :shrug:

[joanne]

3. Whatever happened to OBL?

Dumbya probably doesnt even remember who he is.

[Skip Intro]

2. about as well as the search for mullah omar or that other guy, um...

what was his name....

[jobycom]

6. Waldo?

Or the guy with the beard?

[Skip Intro]

10. It was the dude whose family members were allowed to leave the US on 9*12

or 9*13 - when other flights were suspended - special clearance to leave the US after their countrymen attacked us. Good friends of the bush family, I think.

landon, luden....someting like that

(it was family members wasn't it?)

[wli]

13. the Italians investigated

They found Gladio alive and well, with CIA "control links."

[Stephanie]

4. I was a New Yorker opening her mail in rubber gloves

After a woman died uptown. After problems at major news networks.

No resolution, no explanation. Ordinary New Yorkers, people like me, thrown into fits of paranoia and glove-wearing thanks to these sick propagandists.

[jobycom]

5. You know, it's a little slow going

After they realized that all of the targets were critics of BushCo, the investigators were a little afraid of actually solving it.

Interesting, isn't it, that they were never repeated? One would assume that a serial killer or publicity hound or any other "profiled" style assailant would have done it again, since he wasn't caught the first time.

[TruthIsAll]

8. Hmm, joby, sounds like a conspiracy to me. What do you think?

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[jobycom]

9. There are conspiracies

Just not every time something happens.

This is more of one of those things that makes you go "Hmmm."

[Liberal In Texas]

7. That's a laugh. It was military grade traced to the US. You really think

they're going to "investigate" that?

Ha ha ha ...

[guruoo]

11. Don't forget the..

ric in sent to Frist's office.
He dared to attempt compromise with Democrats,
then .....
suddenly began towing the hard party line.

[wli]

14. sounds like some heavy-handed hardball there

That kind of stuff doesn't usually last this long. I wonder how they pulled it off.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Last I heard, the Anthrax was determined to be a U.S. army strain...

...And here's Bob with the Weather!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. Yes it was. It was also a strain that was in the hands of Dyncorp, a Huge

US contractor.

[LibDemAlways]

15. The anthrax attacks were unleashed

shortly after 9/11 and aimed squarely at Democrats (Daschle, Leahy) and the corporate "news" media - plus one tabloid that had printed unflattering photos of the chimp's offspring.The attacks certainly ratcheted up the fear as postal workers and ordinary citizens died.

I think the purpose of the anthrax attacks was twofold and became evident after it was determined the anthrax was from a domestic source. (1) Serve notice to Dems in Congress and to the media that the BFEE plays hardball so it's best to go along with the program; and (2) keep ordinary Americans afraid and not willing to question the BFEE's tactics as they launched their "war" on terror. I think they succeeded on both counts.

[Mythsaje]

17. So when are they going to break out the stuff again?

Their iron grasp is starting to slip now.

[DBoon]

16. Wonderfully!

The public was scared, liberal democrats who were the target were intimidated, a bystander has had his career ruined, and the real perpetrators were never fingered.

Another successful covert operation.

[OKDem08]

19. Dboon

"a bystander has had his career ruined"...any word on his present circumstances? I do recall his press statements & found him very believable as to the fallout he suffered.

[DBoon]

22. Steve Hatfill?

You know as much as I do.

His career has definitely ended.

No charges were ever filed.

He does, however have an "interesting" background.

[klyon]

21. don't forget the Senate office building that was under lock-down

What files and desks were searched? What dirt was uncovered?
Does anyone believe privacy was respected?

KL

[Al-CIAda]

18. a month before the first reported outbreak-

Why did the White House go on Cipro Beginning September 11th?
Were they psychic, or did they know?


Nearly a month before the first reported outbreak, White House officials start taking the powerful antibiotic Cipro to treat anthrax. By the end of the year it will be known that the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced by CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the Batelle Memorial Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground.

FBI & BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUED OVER ANTHRAX DOCUMENTS

Judicial Watch Wants to Know Why White House Went on Cipro Beginning September 11th

What Was Known and When?
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed lawsuits against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”), the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (“USAMRIID”) and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for those agencies’ failures to produce documents concerning the terrorist anthrax attacks of October 2001, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”).

http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml

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Complete 911 Timeline: Anthrax attacks and microbiologists
Project: Complete 911 Timeline
Open-Content project managed by Paul Thompson

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&theme=anthrax

[Toots]

38. Are they still taking Cipro or was that a one time thing?

Suspicious is stating it lightly.

[yankeedem]

20. Wasn't the anthrax scare

About the time the Patriot Act was about to be voted on? After the anthrax, the bill sailed through with little review.

[lateo]

23. I thought so.

Another successful venture by Bush Co.

[halsaxby]

24. Anthrax...

Since there are only a few sources of anthrax in this country and they are all controlled by the gov't, I would think they would have this wrapped up by now. Of course, if "Al Qaeda" mail terrorists turned out to be BushCo/Aramco/Haliburton stooges people might start looking at 9/11 a little harder.

[lateo]

25. You would think so...

Especially since they know the Army base that the strain came from. And the fact that there are only 4 people who know how to make this type of weaponized Anthrax.

[OKDem08]

26. Lateo, wow! I didn't know that

One would think if that were the case, a conviction would have resulted. How convenient.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. I know you asked the question ironically but let's pose it again

Seriously. And I do mean seriously. Why has this been totally dropped by everyone - the White House, the media, everyone? What is the ongoing investigation? Was Valerie Plame by any chance involved in that investigation? Why would the anthrax terrorist(s) stop with just the single flurry of attacks? Why were Democrats and the media the primary focus of those attacks?

Isn't this just a huge, gigantic incident that we have all dropped in the confusion of war? I always saw the Stephen Hatfill character as being the convenient fall-guy a la Richard Jewel. They certainly ruined his life as a person of interest without ever indicting him. Who is protecting us from future anthrax attacks? I want a response and an update NOW!

[lateo]

30. Very curious...

It is interesting that the story has all but been dropped.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

28. I'm kicking because I really want to know.

[tjdee]

29. Here's the latest:

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/#events

"According to Debra Weierman, an FBI field office spokesperson in Washington, in October of 2004, there were 31 Special Agents of the FBI, 13 Postal Inspectors, 1 U.S. Attorney and a scattering of support personnel working full time on the anthrax investigation (and that does not include lab technicians).

"This is the type of case the likes of which we've never had," Weierman said when asked why, three years later, the case remains unsolved. "Make no mistake, it is being intensely investigated.""

Can't vouch for whoever is running this anthraxinvestigation.com, but the site does seem to have the most recent info on it.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

31. Thank you!! I think we should all be concerned about this. n/t

[lateo]

32. I have a hard time believing that this case is being...

"intensely investigated"

Watergate took less than 2 years....

[ChiDem]

33. And of course there is this...

Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch, said administration officials said last fall that some White House staff members had begun taking the antibiotic Cipro on Sept. 11, weeks before the anthrax attacks were made public.

"We believe that the White House knew or had reason to know that an anthrax attack was imminent or underway," Klayman said. "We want to know what the government knew and when they knew it."

SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A15269-2002Jun7¬Found=true

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

34. Ok, it's now 3 years later after they have filed their FIA request

And . . . ? What good is it to have laws on the books if they won't comply? I guess they didn't find it necessary to pass the word to Brokaw or Dashle or anyone else. Wouldn't want to alarm us.

On a similar but unrelated topic, why is the US not stockpiling the same kind of bird-flu drugs everyone in the rest of the world is?

I see it as another failure to protect the public at large.

[ChiDem]

35. 30,000 die every year from the flu

And every year we are short vaccine.

The only thing we are stockpiling these days is hypocrisy

[lateo]

36. Yep.