Remember the anthrax terrorist?

[joanne]

It's doubtful that Shrub does.

From the Washington Post. Officials have all but said its hopeless. They have greatly reduced the number of agents working on the case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091502456.html

[Kipling]

1. I'd be surprised if they told him.

[mmonk]

2. Most certainly

and the targets of the anthrax mailings as well. I'm sure the administration doesn't care if they solve it.

[izzie]

3. Some thing else this group in DC can not figure out.

They are hopeless.

[progressivebydesign]

4. Odd. I was just thinking about this last night.

For some reason, my mind wandered to the bizzare spin on this that the anthrax attacks were born of trying to silence someone that had dirt on Bush. That was a really strange accusation. Sometimes those types of acts balloon in other attacks to make it look random. Like some of the drug tampering instances, and those horrible sniper shootings a few years ago in the East. I think that's how that theory got started, and perhaps there was something about the strain of it that was connected to the government.

I sound too damn tin foily, sorry. I'm just recalling things that were floated around at the time.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. They would like us to think it is tin-foily.

But the mailings were not just to congress, but to leading Dems. No mailings to repubs. Also to a newspaper editor who took an anti-Bush stance.

It's not spin. Just the facts.

EDIT:
It gets tin-foily when the question becomes, why is the repub administration so unsuccessful in investigating this. They have samples of the anthrax, had determined the strain that it originated from, and that in itself limits the possible suspects considerably.
:tinfoilhat:

[second edition]

5. The administration should feel obligated to keep this investigation

open and active, after all it frightened the nation and caused the deaths of several people. However, they used it for what it was worth and it now is not to their advantage to keep aggressively pursuing it any longer. I was always struck by how partisan many of the attacks were and who they were directed at.

[Soloflecks]

6. Meanwhile,

not even a mention of this:

More troubling to Langford than the missing specimens was what investigators called "surreptitious" work being done in the pathology lab late at night and on weekends.

Dr. Mary Beth Downs told investigators that she had come to work several times in January and February of 1992 to find that someone had been in the lab at odd hours, clumsily using the sophisticated electron microscope to conduct some kind of off-the-books research.
(snip)
Documents from the inquiry show that one unauthorized person who was observed entering the lab building at night was Langford's predecessor, Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Zack being let in at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992, apparently by Dr. Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack's, according to a report filed by a security guard.

See links here:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html

[joanne]

7. Well that sure is interesting

I cant help but think at least a few people know who really was involved.

[madrchsod]

9. it is hopeless because whoever is being protected.

there is less than 30 people who had access to this material someone authorized this person to set up and execute this operation.
it served two purposes-attempted murder on various leaders in the democratic party. second was to field test the effects of sending anthrax thru the general public by using personally contact...the mail and the lady on the street.
we will never know because someone doesn`t want us to