· Senate Majority Leader Daschle received the first Senate anthrax letter as he led the opposition to the original version of the Bill.
· After receiving the anthrax letter, Daschle switched from supporting a 2 year limit on the Bill, later defending a 4-year sunset clause as the "appropriate balance."
· No Republican received an anthrax letter.
· The House and Senate buildings were closed and not reopened until after the Patriot Act was passed.
· The Supreme Court was shut down with an anthrax scare the day after the constitutionally-challenged Patriot Act was signed by President Bush.
· All the contaminated letters contained the Ames strain of anthrax, the DNA of which is traced to the original batch preserved in a university lab in Ames, Iowa. This strain was "weaponized" in Utah into a potent powder with an elaborate secret technique developed at Fort Detrick, Md. http://tinyurl.com/6lhpab
Who had a motive? Who had a grudge against The Enquirer and The New York Post? Who had a grudge against Brokaw? Who wanted to frighten or manipulate Congress? First to get it to adjourn indefinitely, leaving Bush with the power of the purse. Second to get the Patriot Act Passed in all its fascist glory, without even being read. Who?
It's as plain as the nose on your face. Why is the major media pussyfooting around it? Are they still terrified? The anthrax attacks were almost certainly an attempted Operation Northwoods/Media Attack/Political Coup and its targets, as group, would only have been chosen by George Bush.
One cannot run a covert operation on the scale of 911, or even the second phase of persuading Congress to do the right thing without first controlling the media that are not merely the lapdogs of their imperialist masters, but an active branch of the intelligence community even though many of the news people themselves do not know it.
August 6, 2008 Addendum
New evidence convincingly demonstrates the political cover-up and Bruce Ivins’s innocence. The Wall Street Journal front-page headline of Monday, August 4, 2008 trumpeted “FBI USED DNA TO LINK ANTHRAX TO SUSPECT.” The story, irrelevantly but alarmingly showing a fully suited HAZMAT worker decontaminating a federal building (while a normally clothed civilian stands by watching) reported, “Using new DNA technology, the Federal Bureau of Investigation analyzed the anthrax strain sent to victims of the attack and linked it to the spores handled by Dr. Ivins, according to federal officials close to the seven-year investigation.” Presumably the DNA technology had to be “new” to explain why the link had not been made long ago, but the article never says how “new” or what the new technology was. Although the Ames strain of virus that caused the deaths originated in a CIA research lab, subsequent news reports state that dozens of research labs throughout the world have samples of it, thus we wait to learn how the “new” technology found a specific subspecies of Ames anthrax that was linked to Ivins and him alone. Remarkably, but not surprisingly, the article never reaches that issue past its headline and introduction; instead, it then tells us what a nutcase Ivins was.
And here, the facts are instructive. Jean Duley, previously identified as Ivins’s therapist, “described a man who was preparing for an angry confrontation over being the focus of the FBI investigation.” But of course guilty people, especially guilty biochemical researchers, don’t usually fantasize “angry confrontations” with the authorities, but people who are being framed often do. The Journal advises that Duley:
…testified before a Maryland circuit court that Dr. Ivins told a July 9 group therapy session of a "long and detailed homicidal plan and intention...to kill his co-workers," according to a tape of the hearing. "Because he was about to be indicted on capital murder charges that he was going to go out in a blaze of glory," she said. Ms. Duley described Dr. Ivins as "a revenge killer" who had attempted to poison people as far back as the year 2000, according to the tape. "He has been forensically diagnosed by several top psychiatrists as a sociopathic homicidal killer," she said in the court hearing.
The politically convenient diagnoses make one look to the source, and the August 6, 2008 Washington Post tells us more about Ms. Duley.
The counselor he saw for group therapy and biweekly individual sessions, who would eventually tell a judge that he was a "sociopathic, homicidal killer," had a troubled past. Jean C. Duley, who worked until recent days for Comprehensive Counseling Associates in Frederick, is licensed as an entry-level drug counselor and was, according to one of her mentors, allowed to work with clients only under supervision of a more-seasoned professional.
Shortly before she sought a "peace order" against Ivins, Duley had completed 90 days of home detention after a drunken-driving arrest in December, and she has acknowledged drug use in her past.
