Showing posts with label anthrax letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthrax letters. Show all posts

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Farcical Bureau of Investigation

The FBI has announced they will present scientific evidence it has against the suspect in the anthrax case. Well, since the hair samples they had didn't match, you gotta wonder what is the scope of the evidence they have? Or is it merely going to take them until next week to manufacture evidence? Why haven't they investigated the one person caught on camera entering the anthrax storage area with out authorization? If the FBI can't find murder suspects in one killing where a bunch of undergrads could, how can we expect them to locate a suspect in the anthrax killings? The FBI seems better suited to smear campaigns based on outright lies than doing any investigative work.
Maybe it's because that person may be able to implicate the true mastermind behind the attacks.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Yeah, Sure, Blame The Dead Guy

Looking to wrap up the anthrax letter investigation before another administration took power and might have investigated possible malfeasance by the current one, a possible suspect in the anthrax letter investigation committed suicide today. Never mind that he warned of possible anthrax contamination at the Fort Detrick USAMRIID, or that videotape had caught someone else entering the lab with out authorization, after he had been released from his job for racially motivated attacks on a co-worker.
Never mind that taking a whole bottle of Tylenol 3 with codeine would cause you to vomit before it could kill you, or that Tylenol 3 is a prescription drug, you know, because of the codeine. You may damage your liver before it kills you, which wouldn't be immediate.(according to Snopes)
The main conspiracy is that the government was behind the anthrax attacks (which is why people in the Bush administration began taking Cipro on September 10). The letters were only mailed to key Democrats who may have stood in the way of passing the Patriot Act. Also to the photo editor at The STAR, which had been publishing pictures of the Bush twins underage drinking and falling down drunk. The letters were written to cast suspicion on Arabs, even though the spores came from an Army biological weapon lab (which, isn't that illegal?) at a time when rhetoric and propaganda had been ramped up for war with Iraq.
At first the FBI spent it's time and energy on a suspect who later successfully sued them for completely destroying his life. Which left the question unanswered, who did mail the anthrax? Until now, of course, and now that Dr. Ivins is dead, no big cash settlement to pay out because dead men can't fight you in court.