ANTHRAX

Anybody still recall the anthrax attacks that took place in this country during the panic that ensued the week of 9/11/01? Remember those? Remember how the F.B.I. thought it had a fall guy in Steven J. Hatfill until it became obvious that Hatfill had no intention of taking the fall--and so they backed off in the glare of publicity and legal actions and appear to have buried the case? The Mazeppist doesn't know much about this sort of thing but, as a reasonably educated citizen of this former republic, I do have a few questions about that whole forgotten episode.

For example, just how many individuals are there in the United States (or the world for that matter) who have access to weapons grade anthrax and the requisite knowledge to produce and deliver it--without harming themselves in the process? I would have to imagine that we are talking about a discrete, finite, and easily identifiable community of individuals. So how is it possible that the case has gone unsolved? I have not joined the conspiracy theorists who contend that 9/11 was plotted by the Bush Administration, but I do wonder if the anthrax case might not hold the explosive key to government complicity in the 9/11 attacks at a very high level--and this is why the case quickly disappeared from public view...

I happened to be in the District of Columbia two Thanksgivings ago and found myself strolling by the FBI building. I had a notion to walk up the steps and exercise my right as a citizen to know the status of the case. But I decided that I didn't really want to wind up in the gitmo-gulag so I passed on by...Nothing like assigning the fox to watch the hen-house.

Yeah, we're the most free people on this earth; just ask our jailers...

I was reminded this morning that Monkey-Boy Bush, in his famous "Axis of Evil" address, accused Iraq of manufacturing weapons-grade anthrax. This leads me to a hypothesis: in 2002, the White House (mistakenly) believed that the national press would hold the federal government accountable for the investigation of the 9/11 anthrax attacks. Little did they suspect that the media in this country is so supine that they would allow this crime to drop off the radar--despite the fact that several "liberal" journalists were the targets of the attacks! So, in an attempt to create a false trail, the White House decided to blame it on Saddam. As it turns out, that particular falsehood wasn't necessary now that what passes for "investigative journalism" in the 21st century U.S. consists largely of journalists interviewing other journalists about their latest briefing by State Department officials.

White House anxiety over a REAL anthrax investigation (i.e., one NOT conducted by the Executive Branch) suggests inside knowledge of, and/or complicity in, the 9/11 anthrax attacks.

The place to begin asking questions would not be Monkey-Boy; one can be reasonably assured that he wouldn't know the difference between shit and shinola. The place to begin asking questions would be the Vice President's office--not that anyone there would do anything but stonewall. But if you look long and hard enough, someone with a conscience might just turn up. Or turn up dead.