Monday, August 4, 2008

Anthrax: Pro-War Conspiracy?

Andrew Sullivan seems to think it likely and links to both the New York Times' and Glenn Greenwald's extensive analysis of the laughable investigation and other evidence. I'm not going to read any more about it, I figure it's a given now. Thing is, is there criminality here? Can we get them on this?
Go to Sullivan for the links if you want them.

Update at TPM says White House pressured FBI to conclude or suggest that it was from the Middle East even though by then they knew it was weapons grade from our own lab. Whole thing makes me sick.

On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, "There may be some possible link" to Bin Laden, adding, "I wouldn't put it past him." Vice President Cheney also said Bin Laden's henchmen were trained "how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together."

But by then the FBI already knew anthrax spilling out of letters addressed to media outlets and to a U.S. senator was a military strain of the bioweapon. "Very quickly [Fort Detrick, Md., experts] told us this was not something some guy in a cave could come up with," the ex-FBI official said. "They couldn't go from box cutters one week to weapons-grade anthrax the next."

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