The Associated Press has an article on this today where they quote Duley's words in the Maryland restraining order:

"Client has a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, plans and actions towards therapists," Duley wrote in court documents last week, adding that his psychiatrist had described him as homicidal and sociopathic.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_scientist

I guess that shows the "good taste" some of the posters here like in their news stories. Ugly realities (unlike accusing an innocent man of mass-murder) need to be scrubbed clean.

It's always funny that the most hate-filled, off-the-deep-end, looney tunes like Elephant dung accuse others of "hate speech." I have no idea what column he read and saw hate-speech, but I guess if you pine for the days when Bush had an inflated, irrational approval rating from the American public despite ignoring all the dire warnings prior to 9.11, allowing 3 thousand citizens to die without lifting a finger, and then allowing Osama Bin Laden to face no reprisal or comeuppance as he has become a hero throughout the Middle East, then deflating and exposing the asinine GOP hype in a humorous way, must constitute “hate speech.”

"More voters (38 percent) complain that they have been hearing "too little" about John McCain than "too much" (26 percent)."

-- Walter Shapiro

There seems to be an implicit (or explicit) assumption in this piece that the fact voters want more coverage of McCain than Obama means that (a) Americans are sick of Obama, and (b) Americans are interested in McCain in a good/supportive way.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever, and none mentioned in this piece, that indicates anything like that. Whether the interest is positive or negative isn’t even broached by Shapiro. People have interest in things they don’t like. For example, Osama Bin Laden and why the Bush administration has done nothing to get him, 9.11 inconsistencies/lies, who Bush and the telecoms illegally spied on etc. All things people are interested in and not supportive of.

Perhaps the interest in wanting more coverage of McCain has to do with his massive corruption and incompetence that the fawning media ignores. The 'Keating Five' should be a prominent story in people’s minds (considering, ya know, it was one of the major corruption scandals of the 1980's and McCain was a central player in that criminal activity), as well as the media “respectfully” overlooking McCain calling his wife a c*nt (which would derail any Democratic candidate), not to mention McCain’s many laughably naïve quotes prior to the Iraq fiasco about how it would be relatively easy and pay for itself, and his utter confusion between Sunni and Shia, and the no longer existent Czech Republic.

McCain’s views are on such a fringe and shared by so few Americans, that it is reasonable to assume that the fact people want more coverage of McCain is because he’s getting a free pass at a time when his kind of idiotic thinking is what got this country into the unprecedented mess we are currently in!

Correction: I meant to say the no longer existent Czechoslovakia which is now the Czech Republic.

There is no doubt in my mind that if there was video of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove in the Oval Office in the fall of 2001 talking openly about the need to put together bogus Intel to promote to the American people (and the world) their plans to attack Iraq (which, as we know, existed by PNAC since George Bush Sr refused to seize Baghdad in 1991) there would still be a sizeable portion of the American population saying “So what?” and “Who cares?” In addition, their eager voicebox and enablers in the US media (CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, etc.) would refuse to air the video for sham "national security" reasons or simply because it makes them uncomfortable to ever attack Republicans for their crimes against this country.

We’ve long since passed the stage of needing any more proof of the guilt of the extensive war crimes of this White House. From lying to start a war, to their malevolent program of torture & abuse of detainees (in knowing defiance of the Geneva Conventions), to outing a CIA agent during war time, their crimes have long been on the table before the American people and the world. This administration used the US Military to execute their frat-boy, think-tank plans to attack and acquire Iraq for their own purposes – plain and simple – and at a time when America faced an actual threat from Saudi terrorism which this administration has helped to strengthen while simultaneously weakening the US military.

There comes a time when what the rightwing and the US media wants must take a backseat to doing what’s right. These son-of-a-bitches should be executed for their crimes against the United States and humanity - period.

"I have by mutual agreement become a consultant, to leave myself free to speak out more freely on the substance of these issues - which is what I thought you wanted to talk about, which is the only reason I agreed to this conversation."

-- Mort Halpern

Translation: "I didn't know you read the Bond proposal! No fair!"