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Does Anyone Remember Anthrax?
Eschaton — Something missing from this article... WASHINGTON -- A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report. what is it... um... ah, right. Still unlikely to have been this I suppose. A second test of the anthrax-laced letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle points to the ...

The Patsy
Antiwar.com Original — ... motive was to draw attention to a supposedly overlooked and under-funded field of vitally important research – that led to the persecution of Hatfill. Today, the same theory is being trotted out to finger Ivins. This concept of the anthrax killers' motive drops the entire context of the postal terrorism that put the nation in a post-9/11 panic and energized the march to war with Iraq. As Glenn Greenwald and others have pointed out, the anthrax attacks were used by administration officials and neoconservative commentators to make the ...

Mass Destruction or Mass Distraction?
Antiwar.com Original — ... hostile to the U.S. could have produced the anthrax in the envelopes mailed to various prominent people, and the most likely culprit was – drum roll, please – Saddam Hussein . Despite the "mushroom cloud" rhetoric, it is likely that nobody believed Saddam had anything close to nuclear weapons, though some may have believed sincerely that he had an active program to develop them. But almost everybody, including more than a few opponents of the war, ...