Glenn, any suggestions of the best way to bring pressure on ABC to come clean OR to encourage other organizations to pursue this? Urge Congress to investigate? This really is huge. Thanks.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html

You know, the Ft. Detrick scientist who had been terminated yet was shown on videotape entering the anthrax lab without authorization?

From antiwar.com:

Also uncovered was a tape from a surveillance camera showing the entry of an unauthorized person into the lab, at 8:40, on January 23, 1992, let in by Dr. Marian Rippy, lab pathologist. The night visitor was Lt. Col. Philip Zack, a former employee who had left as a result of a dispute with the lab over his alleged harassment of Dr. Assaad. The Courant reports:

"Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991, after a controversy over allegations of unprofessional behavior by Zack, Rippy, [lab technician Charles] Brown and others who worked in the pathology division. They had formed a clique that was accused of harassing the Egyptian-born Assaad, who later sued the Army, claiming discrimination."

And let's not forget this Salon column from 2002 with its gee-whiz-I-wonder-who-done-it tone:

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index.html

Here we are at the water. Thirsty?

Sir, this might be either one of the most important columns for American "democracy" (one is forced to use quote marks these days) that you have ever penned or one of the deadliest to your career. You not only opened wide the 9/11 door, you stepped through the portal and gave a primal yell:

to conceal the real culprit(s) (apparently within the U.S. government) who were behind the attacks.

Oh my, Glenn. Whatever will Salon do with you when the "crazy conspiracy theory blogger" attacks start?

You might catch some flak on jumping the gun a bit on this:

We now know -- we knew even before news of Ivins' suicide last night . . . [the anthrax] came from our own Government's scientist, from the top Army bioweapons research laboratory.

I think his "suicide" is "apparent" at this point and he was a suspect--the FBI hasn't confirmed it came from a scientist at Ft. Detrick. But those are nits.

I salute you. I praise you. I admire your bravery and purity. What you wrote here showed callous disregard for your own career in a passionate pursuit of the Truth. All hail, for the hell I bet you're soon to catch.

dont forget the "suicide" of Dr David Kelly!

The argument that the anthrax letters "were actually more consequential" than 9/11 is indeed going too far. The Bush administration was in a state of confusion after 9/11 and did not push the anthrax matter very hard. Also the choice of targets immediately raised a red flag, indicating that the culprit was a right-winger - why would Islamic terrorists target "liberal" news media and members of Congress?

But it is really inconceivable that the Bush administration has not known more than they have let on, probably from the very beginning. How could it possibly take almost 7 years to assemble evidence on something which was initially viewed as a possible national danger?

Which is a greater national danger now, more 9/11's or more anthrax attacks and Oklahoma City bombings? At best, the Bush administration has been totally uninterested in preventing the latter.

Please! Let us demonstrate a little patience here.

There are only three more suicides to be carried out and then Cohen will be able to answer all of our questions.

As an alternative to panic, may I suggest we spend this glorious Friday observing our friends Elephantman, Tiberious, and Shooter242 daisy chaining each other, nose to ass. While some might call it a form of voyeurism it cannot be as bad as watching John McCain laugh at his own "jokes".

Just relax, everyone.

Hi, Mom.

Countdown for its Worst Persons in the World last night had an interesting item (see sig) on how to start a war with Iran. Guess what, the winner was Cheney and the discussion is alleged to have taken place in The Dark One’s office. It seems the participants were scheming another Gulf of Tonkin for Iran and decided the most viable plan was to build four Iranian look alike PT boats, man them with US Navy SEALS and have them shoot at US ships. It had to be rejected because most in the group thought killing Americans to start another (un)necessary war, was not a good idea. KO speculates that The Dark One probably disagreed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25959413

How did Cohen get a prescription when he had no symptoms of a bacterial infection?

that when there was enough evidence for his arrest he was "persuaded" by government and Bush officials that suicide would be better all around -- for his family, for the country he loved, and for George W. Bush -- than his arrest and trial.

I think this sort of thing was once fairly common among the officers of European armies. Rather than let a scandal bring the officer corps into disrepute, an officer the offender couldn't ignore would place a pistol on the man's desk and then wait in the hall.

Keeps all the scandalous information nice and hidden.

I've been thinking this over a bit, and it seems that there may be some kind of loose connection in these kinds of actions. Surely, if there were well-placed officials disseminating false reports of the Anthrax-Iraq connection, there was some government involvement in the case. At the very least it's a cover-up, at worst it's the kind of shadow-ops designed to create a casus belli.

With that in mind, there was news from yesterday that Cheney's office once considered an operation that would sound shocking if we didn't come to expect it already (Link in signature). The idea was to dress Navy Seals up as Iranians, place them on American made speed boats designed to look like Iranian ships, and then shoot at Americans to create the appearance of a skirmish similar to what nearly happened in the Strait of Hormuz; all in an attempt to draw the US into a war with Iran. Thankfully, the proposal was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans.

Who were the officials propagating the Iraq connection in the Anthrax case? Were they tied to Cheney's office? Because the Anthrax incident was used, almost immediately, to provoke a war with Iraq through anonymous, well-placed government officials, it doesn't seem plausible that it can now be blamed as the work of a lone "disgruntled employee" or a McVeigh-type perpetrator.

What really bothers me now, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist nor am I a "truther", but with these two cases out in the open now, what does it say of 9/11 and Afghanistan?