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Remeber the 2001 Anthrax Attacks on Liberals - Senator Patrick Leahy, Senator Tom Daschle, and news anchor Tom Brokaw

By now you may have heard about Bruce Ivins, the Biodefense civilian Scientist who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md.. The Anthrax from the November 2001 letters was traced back to his lab.

As the story is going detectives were closing in on him as a major suspect and then he committed suicide. The buck stops with Ivins.

There are several things about this story that bug me. I am also extremely pissed off that NO ONE in the media is bothering to ask if Ivins is guilty, then why did he send the Anthrax to Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy?

Just a quick history lesson: After 9/11 Bush and the Republicans wanted to ram through “The Patriot Act” as a matter of “National Security”. This is one of the worst bills of all time. It violates the basic freedoms that I thought this country once held so dear. It may also very well be unconstitutional. Never mind the increase in power it gave to the Executive Branch.

Well, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy were both holding up the bill and threatening to not allow it come to the Senate floor for a vote.

In November 2001 letters containing Anthrax were found addressed to them. The media and Republicans went into a frenzy claiming these Anthrax letters were proof that we “needed” “The Patriot Act” to keep America safe. Congress rolled over and the Freedom Hating Bill was passed.

It was never determined who sent the Anthrax letters. Of course the media, conservatives and Bush Republicans wanted to blame Al Qaeda. But it never made sense why Al Qaeda would target two senior ranking Senate Democrats.

Years go by and the case remains unsolved. Then researchers on the case get a break and tie the Anthrax back to Ivins. He then conveniently commits suicide thus stopping the investigation and closing the case.

Ok, here is what I think happened: Some persons in the bowels of our government from some nefarious agency approached Ivins about supplying some weapons grade Anthrax to them. Ivins was told it was a matter of National Security. These people took the Anthrax and sent some to Leahy and Daschle with the express purpose of strong arming the Patriot Act through Congress. This whole thing reeks of Dick Cheney by the way.

Well years go by and some government detectives, likely FBI, traced the trail back to Ivins. The people from the nefarious group, (remember Cheney said he likes to spend time in the shadows) approached Ivins and interrogated him. They wanted to know if he would take the fall for them. When Ivins learned they were going to pin the blame for the attacks on him he got pissed. These nefarious characters then felt they had no choice but to kill Ivins.

And yes I do think Cheney orchestrated the whole thing. Recently Seymour Hersh disclosed that Cheney had a plan to dress up Navy Seals like Iranians and have them attack U.S. installations and troops in order to justify attacking Iran. This is the type of Tom Clancy shit Cheney loves.

Remember the whole yellow cake uranium thing. Remember Curveball. Remember the slam dunk of WMD in Iraq, not wanting the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud, or that we had evidence that Saddam attacked us on 9/11. All of it was lies. All of it championed by Cheney.

Who wanted the Patriot Act the most? Cheney. How was it finally passed? By sending Anthrax to Daschle and Leahy. What did it do? Sent a veiled threat to both Senators that they could be gotten to if they didn’t fall in line.

Ivins was just a patsy. He was in many ways a person who just followed orders. He was probably told he was doing his duty for his country and how he would be remembered as a hero. He was probably sick to his stomach when he found out what they did with his Anthrax but he knew if he talked he was a dead man.

Again, the media fails us refusing to ask the basic question: Why did Ivins send Anthrax to Daschle and Leahy?

Glenn Greenwald (see link below) reports that ABC tried to falsely link these Anthrax attacks back to Iraq and Saddam in 2001.

Brad Blog - ‘Not One’ Reporter Bothered to Ask Brother About Political Leanings of ‘Anthrax Killer’

Glenn Greenwald - Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News