Headline and story from ABC is almost too good to be believed:

"Did Answers Die With Anthrax Suspect?"

Not surprisingly, govt. is also painting Ivins as some sort of psychopath with a great mind but emotional problems. Apprarently the question of "how did such a mentally unstable person, with homicidal tendencies come to such a position in the U.S. government?", hasn't crossed the mind of Brian Ross & his crack Investigative Team, yet.

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/24/journalism/permalink/cacb4e0bcb3ca8ff7c3f249e4f39ae56.html

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- We have evidence that high level government officials were targeted for assassination using biological weapons.

- We have evidence that there has been attempted coup in this country that may have even been successful.

- We have evidence that there is at least one spy in the highest levels of our government defense against weapons of mass destruction.

- We have evidence that a spy infiltrated the investigation of the terrorist attacks against this country.

- We have evidence that a spy purposefully sabotaged the investigation of the terrorist attacks against this country in order to protect himself, his possible conspirators and possibly launch further attacks against this country.

- If a spy was actually able to infiltrate and direct the investigation of the terrorist attacks against this country then we must consider the possibility that there are additional sleeper agents with the highest levels of the government and the media.

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Congress MUST return from their vacation today and immediately begin a Select Committee investigation. The safety and security our country is in grave doubt.

Just returned from there and it appears more than 90% of commenters are demanding Ross divulge his corrupt sources.

I'd urge anyone who has not done so, swing by there and leave a note.

Let's grow this thing.

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-OT Note: Why does it take 2 minutes to load every page? Is Salon that inept?-

2.5 seconds.

Try Firefox 3.

"the tinfoil haberdashery"

If you do that, visit said haberdashery for your conspiracy apparel, then you might as well start another blog for the resulting posts, and that would be a great name for it: The Tinfoil Haberdashery.

That is really hard to believe. If Ivins really is cremated without an autopsy, it will only fuel the speculation that something is not right.

On the other hand, I suppose for some people, wild-eyed speculation is preferrable to the truth.

-Also, I've also gone through a couple of pages of comments and WHERE is the discussion about Dr. Philip Zack?-

Please continue browsing. It's covered here.

On sale now at the Tinfoil Haberdashery!

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From Think Progress yesterday:

Judge on Rove’s citizen arrest: ‘It’s about time.’

Last Friday, police in Des Moines, Iowa arrested four people who attempted to make a citizens’ arrest of former top White House aide Karl Rove, who was in town to speak at a GOP fundraiser. A retired minister and three members of the Des Moines Catholic Workers community were cited for trespassing. However, according to a press release, the judge presiding over the case praised their efforts:

[Mona] Shaw was the first called before Polk County Fifth Judicial District Associate Judge William Price.

After entering her plea, the judge asked Shaw, “Ma'am, what were you doing at the Wakonda Country Club?”

“I was attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove, your honor,” Shaw answered.

“Well,” the judge looked up and said, “it’s about time.”

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I hate to say this, but in spite of...

All of Glenn's thorough research, digging and logical threads

All of our gnashing of teeth

All of our justified rage and paranoia

All of the obvious questions and apparent conclusions

All of the stranger than fiction facts

All of the inherent evil

This story ain't going anywhere. The FBI's going to close the case, the MSM will erase the trail and return to more important things like Brangelina's twins, the shadow government will close ranks and this story will die as quickly as Ivans. Betcha'. Within two weeks this will be ether.

not "Ivans"...but you know what I mean. There's a very, very heavy foot on our throats.

2.5 seconds.

Try Firefox 3. -- Northwestwoods

I use Linux so naturally I use Firefox, and with a Debian based distro I always have the very latest. I run 3.0.1 on this computer and have been doing so for some time. I ran version 3 in beta form for months before it was released. I have tried it on a 32 bit installation as well as a 64 bit installation.

The problem is with just the one server of commercials on Salon, the one I referenced. I can get 2.5 seconds when net traffic is slow, like early morning, but later in the day I run several tabs so I can read other blogers while I wait for Glenn's pages to load. The longest time is around 2 minutes. (mostly it is half a minute to a minute)

I am surprised no one else is complaining; it could be a flash/Firefox problem on the latest version. However, I can find no other site that gives any trouble and I read a lot of political sites that have tons of multimedia.

I will give it a few more days and if it continues, I'll just spend more time writing essays for other places. I should do that anyway, I've gotten lazy in these last couple of months.

Thanks for the suggestion, I do appreciate the offer of help.

William T. must be twirling.

By any chance did you get to know Paul Barnes when you were a member of David Harris' resistance campaign? Paul refused induction in 1968 and was sent to jail. He ended up sharing a cell with David Harris.

but without "fresh meat" to their story... there's not much to tell.

I'd guess 60 Minutes and/or Dateline and the like are busy trying to round up "guests" but unless the feds divulge or family members/colleagues are prepared to make statements -- y'know the easy faux news stuff -- chirp chirp chirp

I find it rather implausible that Irvins had a history threatening homicidal behavior, simply because I think that would have made him a significant "person of interest" a long time ago, since it was so at odds with this normal demeanor.

One of his brothers obviously dislikes him intensely ... but intra-family squabbles are often heated and deep rooted and emotional.

The Wikipedia entry on the anthrax mailings is really very good. I am amazed at how BAD much of the coverage ... even just of the events of the last 3 days ... is. Despite the appearance that they are all using the SAME previously available reports, there is odd spin, odd omissions, odd emphasis here and there. The thumbnail backgrounders of what happened in 2001 to present appearing in various outlets are full of holes too.

It's impressive, reading the Wikipedia, just how much inaccurate reporting was done in that 6 week period ... shocking actually. It was full on "Princess Diana is Dead" media hysteria mode ... at least when THEY got their letters.

It certainly FEELS like everyone wants the story to go away... but it may just be that everyone is waiting for some hard news ...

I hope his family sues ... everyone.