Tomgram: Six Questions about the Anthrax Case »
Posted By berkeley 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsOh, the spectacle of it all -- and don't think I'm referring to those opening ceremonies in Beijing, where North Korean-style synchronization seemed to fuse with smiley-faced Walt Disney, or Michael Phelp's thrilling hunt for eight gold medals and Speedo's one million dollar "bonus," a modernized tribute to the ancient Greek tradition of amateurism in action. No, I'm thinking of the blitz of media coverage after Dr. Bruce Ivins, who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, committed suicide by Tylenol on July 29th and the FBI promptly accused him of the anthrax attacks of September and October 2001.
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berkeley3 months, 2 weeks ago
unfortunately, the case proves that the fbi can no longer claim to be an independent, honest, investgative body. it is now owned by others.
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tehranchik3 months, 2 weeks ago
fta, my favorite question
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"Once U.S. weapons labs were identified as the sources of the anthrax, why were no special ops teams sent in to occupy the facilities, shut them down, and fly those found there, shackled and blindfolded, to Guantanamo or other more secret sites?" -
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hyperbola3 months, 2 weeks ago
The "anthrax case" was politicized from the beginning as "war propaganda" against Al Qaeda. Scared Americans didn't ask questions about political corruption in their government then (or now). Those in our government who lie to Americans for political purposes are being specifically protected by corruption in the Dept. of Justice.
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The Mukasey Doctrine
By Scott Horton
Prior to his confirmation, Michael Mukasey fessed up, in a written response to Senator **** Durbin, to a meeting the White House arranged with a group of movement conservatives. The team he met with had a simple agenda: They wanted his assurance that he would not appoint special prosecutors to go after administration figures involved in serious scandals at the Justice Department, including the U.S. attorneys scandal and the introduction of torture with formal Justice Department cover, and they wanted his assurance that Justice would continue to provide legal cover to “the Program.” The team who met Mukasey included figures on the periphery of the scandal who may have had personal reasons to fear an investigation. But Mukasey is clearly keeping the understanding that brought him to the cherished post of attorney general. And that’s bad news for the Justice Department and its reputation.
Today he addressed the annual convention of the American Bar Association, and expanded upon what may be known to future generations as the “Mukasey Doctrine.” This doctrine holds that political appointees in the Justice Department who breach the public trust by using their positions for partisan political purposes face no punishment for their crimes.....
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003387
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