So that makes sense.

On the OT, there's an interesting article in the NYT magazine today,

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

about infamous trollers (those trollers herein could only be considered ants beneath their lenses). I saw some interesting parallels with the current crop of power brokers that are now controlling our White House, the DOJ, and the etcetera...Basically, having been given mastery over a certain part of the world (via the internet) these people do whatever they like in the name of power, and then later try to justify it with whatever ethical detritus happens to be close by. If the president does its legal, becomes if you take my post, seriously, you're asking for it. From a moral perspective, IMHO, I definitely see a kind of ethical decay--wherein people used to have complex algorythmic morality, the morality of today seems more and more exemplified by the motto 'if I got away with it, its fine'. I don't know, maybe its a stretch, but still read the article, its fascinating.

There are now 79 comments on abcnews.com, and I found 4 pretty quickly that mention or link to your story. We'll see how long they stay up. (The deleter must be on break.)

See this for more details concerning which you may not be aware:

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/anthrax-attacks-were-not-entirely.html

We should not forget that in 2001 Bruce Ivins (according to a 2004 story in USA Today) was “deeply involved in Operation Noble Eagle -- the government's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans and the anthrax attacks that killed five more less than a month later.” The opening paras of that story follow:

USA TODAY

October 14, 2004, Thursday, FINAL EDITION

Anthrax slip-ups raise fears about planned biolabs

BYLINE: Dan Vergano and Steve Sternberg

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 11A

LENGTH: 2401 words

Bruce Ivins was troubled by the dust, dirt and clutter on his officemate's desk, and not just because it looked messy. He suspected the dust was laced with anthrax.

And he was in a position to know. Ivins, a biodefense expert, and his officemate were deeply involved in Operation Noble Eagle -- the government's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans and the anthrax attacks that killed five more less than a month later.

It was December 2001. Ivins, an authority on anthrax, was one of the handful of researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md., who prepared spores of the deadly bacteria to test anthrax vaccines in animals. He knew enough to grow alarmed when his officemate complained, as she had frequently of late, about sloppy handling of samples coming into the lab that could be tainted with anthrax.

"I swabbed approximately 20 areas of (her) desk, including the telephone computer and desktop," Ivins later reported to Army investigators. Half of the samples, he found, "were suspicious for anthrax," betraying the clumpy brown appearance of anthrax colonies under a microscope.

Rather than reporting contamination to his superiors, Ivins said, he disinfected the desk. "I had no desire to cry wolf," he later told an Army investigator.

Months later, Army investigators would see Ivins' desk cleanup as the first sign of an alarming anthrax contamination at the nation's most renowned biodefense laboratory. A 361-page U.S. Army report on the events of that winter and the following spring, recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, opens a rare window into the government's guarded biodefense establishment……

The Real Plot to Overthrow FDR's America

It's a sordid tale of fascist intrigue by some of America's most famous corporate and political families (including members of FDR's own party) which was deliberately covered up by both the only Congressional Committee to investigate the plot, and also by the leading media outlets of the day including the New York Times.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/27/112936/440

Hey Glenn,

it looks like batman and the anthrax attacker were exchanging codes in your comments ection. In your previous article on the ABC news cover story on the anthrax attacker the comments section contained a series of arguments from "chemical" that attempt to support the position that "anyone" could have created and mailed the anthrax. "Chemicals arguments are here:

http://letters.salon.com/a4e85c7438b987f1d1d63dc79e92ccfd/author/

Chemical's arguments show a peculiar combination of great knowledge about anthrax production, and yet a great amount of wishful thinking about obsticles that a line terrorist might be able to overcome.

The code words start flowing here:

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/09/abc_anthrax/permalink/2f9621d1729db9d77386bf6ceedbab6f.html

Chemical presents the following argument:

Well, that does depend a bit on the product, doesn't it? I mean, if you want to isolate some aspirin from willow bark, grind it up really fine and put it in an envelope, it probably won't cost very much. The FDA requirements, not to mention the requirements of stockholders, are stringent, which does make it very expensive to develop, produce and market new drugs.

We may not realize it, but knowledge that aspirin was once made from willow bark is an obscure piece of knowledge, only reveled in by one group of people, The Carl Duisberg Society, and of course the Bayer aspirin people.

The connection is that Carl Duisberg was the one who first synthesized aspirin, and brought Bayer into the drug business. Later, Duisberg united Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst and BASF to create I. G. Farben, or the German Industrial giant credited by many with bringing Hitler to power.

As a note of coincidence, Bayer is the maker of Cipro, the only antibiotic tested against the strain of anthrax used in the attack. This produced a quick financial windfall for the foundering fortunes of the Bavarian chemical giant.

Also by amazing coincidence, the Carl Duisberg Society was also a funding organization of Muhammed Atta. Muhammed Atta's travels around Europe and the mideast were funded by The CDS. A fact often discused by people interested in the planning of the attack.

In response to Chemical's triumphant post, we learn that Batman, the Dark Knight himself, is also an alumni of the Carl Duisberg Society. It is funny how that works, isn't it?

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/09/abc_anthrax/permalink/8a24ea47e3ca74a5f4c67c42ebd5ca34.html

Batman let's it be known right away that he will not be bullied by his former cohorts, and that Chemical's argument is contrived pseudo-scientific nonsense.