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Foome Once — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:07:02 +0000

The FCC should be investigating ABC, and Congress should be investigating the FBI. But this is Bush world where we can’t even regulate banks, torture isn’t practiced, and a just graduated social worker with a string of DUI’s and a chapter 7 bankruptcy is the prime quoted person by the press, to claim Ivins was a “sociopath” – no one in the MSM is investigating Ivins or questioning the FBI who apparently hounded an innocent man to death, in order to cover their incompetence as well as shroud the identity of the true Anthrax mailer. Makes you question exactly what is going on and why no one seems to care. I see the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald haunting the corridors of power. If government is not responsible to the people from whom its powers spring, then to whom is government responsible?

The cogent questions seems to be, have we passed the point of no return and are we a fascist state with the media controlled by the government?

By: pointus

pointus — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:20:48 +0000

You have to look at WHO PROFITED. As Greenwald pointed out, 9-11 alone wasn’t enough to keep the populace in fear mode. Those pushing for endless war and a rollback of civil liberties needed “one-two punch,” with the anthrax scare playing the role of punch #2.
Glenn says it best: “One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but in the absence of the anthrax attacks, 9/11 could easily have been perceived as a single, isolated event. It was really the anthrax letters — with the first one sent on September 18, just one week after 9/11 — that severely ratcheted up the fear levels and created the climate that would dominate in this country for the next several years after.”

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:19:07 +0000

Tim – In his article, Greenwald himself states that the government denied that Iraq was the anthrax source, from the very beginning.

If the Kelly/Gilligan affair is an indicator, ABC deliberately fabricated, exaggerated or misreported the story, for higher ratings.

Like everyone, government employees have personal agendas. When a mail carrier goes on a killing spree, he’s not acting on government orders.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:56:29 +0000

Mike,
You miss the main point. Even if the Anthrax/Iraq connection wasn’t the dominant cassus belli leading to the 2003 invasion, the fact is we now know that US gov’t employees were responsible for the deaths of 5 people. Did the perpetrator act alone? Why were ABC’s “sources” trying to throw a red herring out there to take suspicion off the Ft Detrick scientists. If the FBI as you state suspected Ft Detrick “as early as October 2001″ how did ABC come to report the Iraq connection in the last week of October 2001 and trumpet it in every newscast for more than a week with many other MSM outlets picking up the story? If the FBI knew it wasn’t true they certainly didn’t try to correct it.
So leaving the Iraq invasion completely out of it we still have 5 murders committed by US gov’t employees which were deliberately made to look like they were committed by muslim extremists (see hand written notes to Daschle, Leahy and Rather). Who profitted from that? Ivans?