Anthrax: Why did the "threat" stop so suddenly?

[Whoa_Nelly]

have been wondering why there was such a spate of anthrax threats/findings/deaths just after Bush was selected in 2000, and then why did all so suddenly stop? Was this a Rove/Bush scheme to begin the state of terror in the US?

[neweurope]

1. They stopped when they found out that Anthrax could be traced...

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Ganja Ninja]

30. They were trying to use anthrax to drum up support for ...

their planned war in Iraq. They were trying to create an excuse to attack Saddam. When 9/11 happened they had all the excuse they needed for their war plans. They found out it was semi-traceable later. This is why when people talk about 9/11 conspiracies I think they're looking at the wrong crime.

[neweurope]

31. I agree with the excuse for Iraq.

I just don't agree that 9/11 "happened".

I like your name :hi:

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. Dust for Shrubby's fingerprints...

I always thought all of that smelled.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. It was after 9/11

only democratic leaders (Daschel and Leahy were the two most prominent Dem's to get letters) who were in a position to oppose the patriot act received the letters. No republicans ever got an anthrax letter.

They stopped because the administration did not need to keep the Dem's in line--they had already showed them who was boss.

[arcane1]

7. and it put them in their place, too

mission accomplished, so to speak

they did manage to destroy the original strain, IIRC.

[tridim]

11. Don't forget, they Thraxed the media too.

Then they started paying them off.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

13. Right, didn't they anthrax Judith Miller

Who then become the loudest drum beater for invading Iraq?

[EVDebs]

27. And only liberal Dems were getting it mailed to them, as

the book "Crossing the Rubicon", by Michael Ruppert of fromthewilderness.com , shows.

Maybe Dr. Larry Ford's people were into this too for what it's worth.

[Warpy]

19. Right, I think the origianl plan was for a much wider "attack."

They planned it to justify their war against Iraq, the centerpiece of their idiotic foreign policy of imperial domination.

9/11 happened and the attack was scaled back to just those people who needed the most intimidation: journalists (including the one who published photos of the Bush brats falling down drunk, an attack that proved fatal) and Democratic congressmen. They just couldn't resist those targets, and that's how we know who ordered it.

Typically arrogant and hamfisted, they never expected the wide contamination as the spores exited through the paper of the envelopes, nor did they expect it to be traced to Fort Detrick so quickly.

They don't care. Journalists and Democrats in Congress were sufficiently warned. Neither will dare voice criticism of the boy king.

[welshTerrier2]

4. most of the supply was hidden ...

in the same place as all the WMD in Iraq ...

[NYC]

5. Democratic senators had been sufficiently intimidated.

Two senators, yet no real investigation. I can't believe this couldn't be traced if someone actually tried.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

it was traced

to america's anthrax supply.

[NYC]

17. Okay, but I meant traced to the person who actually used it.

Knowing where the murder weapon is/was and knowing who the murderer is are two different things.

As soon as they found the source of the murder weapon (anthrax), they stopped looking for the murderer.

I know Leahy & Daschle didn't die, but murder/attempted murder. Pretty much the same intent even though a different result.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

21. But doesn't that point to the fact that they

DON'T want (us) to really know what happened? if they really did a true investigation it would have blow everything into the open. The fact that they didn't clearly shows there is something to hide.

[NYC]

24. Yes, it does.

Absolutely.

[Q]

10. They DID trace it...

...back to US government labs.

And that was the end of it.

[NYC]

18. Traced the anthrax, but not the user.

See my post #17. You would think they would care who did it. Well, I guess they know, just won't tell us.

[Warpy]

23. Who ordered it is much more important than which

worker bee carried it out, although finding the worker bee might lead to the conviction and imprisonment of whoever gave the final order.

It's got Bush fingerprints all over it. We just don't have anything but circumstantial evidence at this point.

[NYC]

25. I doubt it will go farther.

Just another unfinished story to be swept under the rug.

[RoundRockD]

6. Are you watching Lifetime?

Unsolved Mysteries is doing a segment on the Anthrax cases right now.

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Yes...that's what prompted my thoughts regarding this

Just found an article and posted it in LBN re: Tucson, AZ lab selling toxins, including anthrax:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/01/14/s1b_list_0114.html

[gratuitous]

8. It had served its purpose

Once the media and Democratic leaders were sufficiently intimidated, the threat went away. Mobsters don't usually have to break a guy's legs twice, and all that screaming and yelling a victim does can hurt your ears, ya know?

[notadmblnd]

9. because their purpose was served

Two Dem Senators were given a warning and the real target (the guy that was responsible for piblishing the photo of the bush twins falling down drunk in the tabloid) died.

[Fifth of Five]

28. I always wondered

why that tabloid in Florida(iirc) was sent anthrax. Should have known that there was more to that story. This is the first time I've heard of the connection to bfee.

[0007]

12. ...and why is CNN and the whore networks so quite about Eric Rudolph?

Why isn't Eric as popular as the Peterson's, the Jacksons, or that has been movie actor that plugged his old lady? Perhaps cuz Eric belongs to the 'Army of God' and blowing up certain type of buildings was the 'Will of God', eh?

Is Eric Rudolph a hero?

[StClone]

15. Journalist that died of Anthrax published Bush Twin Photos!?

I read this somewhere -- link anyone? If that is true and Microbiologists are been "dying" at unnatural rates it all becomes very interesting.

[notadmblnd]

16. I don't know if he was a journalist, editor or photographer

but I do know that the first attack was at a tabloid publishing building in.... are you ready for it?... sunny Florida. If I recall correctly, it was the SUN.

[NYC]

22. Bob Stevens, photo editor.

http://www.freedomdomain.com/Templemount/10_9b.html

One employee, 63-year-old photo editor Bob Stevens, died last week of inhalation anthrax, while a second, identified by sources as mailroom worker Ernesto Blanco, was found to have a small amount of anthrax in his nose.

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Bob Stevens

Mr. Stevens died of a mysterious case of anthrax. He worked as a photo editor for American Media, who owns the National Enquirer. The Bush family suffered enormous embarrassment at the hands of the Enquirer when they published a photo of daughter Jenna Bush, obviously intoxicated, cigarette in hand, cavorting on the floor with another drunken female.

From: http://www.zen13351.zen.co.uk/reflect/my%20thoughts/bush%20body%20count.htm

Using Google, you can find much more.

[Al-CIAda]

20. We have assumed control...

Why did the White House go on Cipro Beginning September 11th?
Were they psychic, or did they know?


Nearly a month before the first reported outbreak, White House officials start taking the powerful antibiotic Cipro to treat anthrax. By the end of the year it will be known that the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced by CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the. Batelle Memorial Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground.

FBI & BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUED OVER ANTHRAX DOCUMENTS

Judicial Watch Wants to Know Why White House Went on Cipro Beginning September 11th

What Was Known and When?
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed lawsuits against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”), the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (“USAMRIID”) and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for those agencies’ failures to produce documents concerning the terrorist anthrax attacks of October 2001, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”).

http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml

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Complete 911 Timeline: Anthrax attacks and microbiologists
Project: Complete 911 Timeline
Open-Content project managed by Paul Thompson

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&theme=anthrax

[Malikshah]

26. It hasn't a new NBC drama, Medical Investigation

will be doing the ole Smallpox issue...

then another show, Third Watch, will deal with a dirty bomber...

and then there's 24 with the Muslim Terrorists next door.

Lord almighty--it's like we've gone back in time to the months after 9/11

[UTUSN]

29. CHERTOFF Was in Charge of the Anthrax "Investigation"

and got rewarded for not finding anything----like TENET, BREMER, and FRANKS.

[spanone]

32. Why have ALL the threats stopped???? Election Over.