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• Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:34 AM

  imperative need for full accounting of this

  The story needs ivestigating for the obvious reasons that Glenn has been writing about, but it also needs investigating because unanswered questions are going to generate suspicion and conspiracy which will undermine people's confidence in democratic government.

  Hell, the post I just wrote about this sounds conspiratorial even though that was not my intention.

  http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/08/slam-dunk-case-for-impeachment.html

  When it comes to finding out how it came to be that domestic anthrax attacks - mailed to "liberal" figures - which originated from a military lab were used to help sell an invasion of Iraq despite those anthrax letters having nothing to do with Iraq; and when it comes to investigating whether or not the White House attempted to retroactively fabricate evidence linking al Qaeda and Iraq - is it possible that as a nation we might take an interest in such matters that is equal to, at least, that which we take in Britney Spears or the children of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?

  The anthrax letters thing is just disturbing that we still don't know what happened. And this is in relation to an event that hints at the possibility that it wouldn't be all that difficult to generate our own Reichstag fire like event, especially since we've already got a lower threshold for the abrogation of the rule of law than the Weimar Republic did.

  Take note: I am not implying any sort of conspiracy, I am merely pointing out what is obvious from the above stories - if such an event as the anthrax attacks (which were taken advantage of to garner public approval for a war with a country that had nothing to do with the anthrax) or the Suskind charge of retroactive intelligence fabrication can occur without the press, Congress, and the public bothering to get to the bottom of it; then it is possible that such events can be utilized towards achieving undemocratic ends.

  The "lower threshold ..." bit links to this

  http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/05/president-bush-thinks-of-another-way-to.html

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