Letters to the Editor
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Hesitant though I am to criticize Glenn Greenwald -- but there is Cat-shit in this story
For cr*ss@kes would you add the factoid that makes Jennings and ABC look really stupid --
There is absolutely nothing exotic about Bentonite, you can buy it in most grocery stores, just look for Kitty Litter!
Yes, biggest single US use for Bentonite, soaking up cat-shit and pee, followed by use as drillers mud, in oil wells. It also seems unlikley to be useful in weaponising any powder, since it would probably make it clump.
Bentonite is used by the ton for all sorts of inocuous purposes, The Bentonite used in this instance was probably Fullers' Earth.
Think of this, if these morons at ABC had even bothered to pull an Encyclopaedia Britanica off the shelf, or ask a chemist "hey what's Bentonite" and "where can I get some" they would not have bought a scam as obvious as the the sale of the Brooklyn Bridge.