Kill Game: The Path Of Destruction From The Amerithrax Investigation
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bmaz"Have you no sense of decency, ... at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" These prophetic words were spoken on June 9, 1954 by Joseph Welch, attorney for the United States Army, at the nadir of the shameful McCarthy hearings. George Bush, being a failure as a student of history, and Dick Cheney simply disdainful of it, our government has deigned to repeat history by persecuting, oppressing and causing the death of people, many of them innocents, common citizens and bystanders, all over the globe. Was Bruce Ivins yet another one of them?
Google Maps Says Maybe, Maybe Not
The WaPo reveals that Bruce Ivins' supposed window in which he could have mailed the anthrax from Princeton was just barely long enough for him to have done so. That revelation offers more questions than it answers.
Release Ivins' Lie Detector Test
Apparently, Bruce Ivins passed a lie detector test in 2001. I realize people can sometimes game those tests. But we're talking about an emotional instable guy.
If the Questions Are So "Novel" Then How Can You Argue the Privilege Exists?!?!?
Fred Fielding, with a straight face, admits that he and the White House were just making shit up when they invented "absolute immunity."
Cheney and Your 3 Ounce Shampoo Bottles
Suskind provides details of how Bush and Cheney ordered up a torture scare just in time for elections. And as a result, you're still surviving off of hotel shampoo when you travel.
Your Expensive Commute Has Gone To Line Maliki's Pocket
Henry Waxman comes up with a stat that will definitely put the financial cost of the Iraq war in concrete terms.
China Exhibits Very Bad Judgement in Whom to Intimidate
The Chinese just detained the plane carrying the White House press corps to the Beijing Olympics. A horrible, heavy-handed tactic, no doubt. But not a good choice of targets, IMO.
Not a Question of If, But Who, Forged the Letter
While there appears to be little doubt that the December 2003 Habbash letter was a forgery, what remains unclear is precisely what confluence of bureaucratic in-fighting created the letter.
What Would Scott McClellan Say...
Boy, Karl Rove is nothing if not consistent.
Native Tears
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bmazVia the Washington Post, the verdict has been rendered at long last in the Cobell litigationA federal judge ruled Thursday that American Indian plaintiffs are entitled to $455 million in a long-running trust case, a fraction of the $47 billion they wanted. The Native Americans have been screwed once again by the white man.
Bioterrorism on a Grassy Knoll
Joe Persichini, the Assistant Director of the DC FBI Field Office, is going to be the guy who goes down in history as having claimed that Bruce Ivins was acting alone. Thing is, the evidence doesn't prove that claim.
Anthrax Timeline, Two
My anthrax timeline updated with the dates from the DOJ document dump. Boy, if I were Steven Hatfill, I'd be pissed, even with my $5 million.
"It Was Ivins, With a Flask, 200 Miles from the Site of the Crime"
So our crack DOJ wants us to believe that, by providing a lot of circumstantial evidence that places Bruce Ivins in the same room as a flask full of anthrax used in the attack, they've proven not only that Ivins was involved in the crime, but that he was the only one involved in the crime.
In other words, they haven't solved this crime, but they want us to all go away
The Case Against Ivins, Search Warrant One
A summary of the FBI's case as it existed in October 2007.
The Anthrax Prosecutor: The Daughter of the Defense Attorney for BushCo's "Germ Boy"
The most credible reason people have suggested for Ivins' murders of five people was that he wanted the country to be more proactive about anthrax vaccines. But there's someone else who was pushing that issue much harder than Ivins. And, astoundingly, the daughter of that person's defense attorney is one of the prosecutors working this case. That person? Scooter Libby.
DOJ Wants to Have Its Culprit and Withhold Some Materials, Too
News reports say something is going to happen today with the anthrax case. But it's not sure what. NPR reports that DOJ is going to declared its case solved--even while it doesn't close the case.
Officials close to the anthrax investigation have told NPR that the FBI will declare the case of the 2001 anthrax letters solved Wednesday, but that the case will remain open so agents can follow up on some
Tenet and the "Creamy White House Stationery"
Tenet says the Iraqi referred to in Ron Suskind's book, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, wasn't believable. What I want to know, though, is why Tenet is only now admitting he got intelligence from Habbush.
Disestablishmentarianism, CIFA Version
Remember that word? As a kid you probably proudly claimed to have learned its opposite, antidisestablishmentarianism, not long after you learned how to spell M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. You may vaguely remember that the word pertains directly to state sanctioning--or unsanctioning--of religion.
According to Warren Strobel, the Pentagon has decided to use the term "disestablished" to refer to the closure of the CIFA program.
Once Again, Forgeries?
The news that the CIA may have forged a letter alleging ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq reminds me that OVP--particularly Scooter Libby--was the one behind many of the Iraq-Al Qaeda claims.
Anthrax Timeline
The media is finally beginning to question the story about Bruce Ivins (though Glenn is still schooling them). But here's a question I see no one asking, much less answering. The LAT reported that attention began to focus on Ivins in "late 2006" only after FBI Director Mueller changed the leadership team on the investigation.
Federal investigators moved away from Hatfill -- for years the only publicly identified "person of interest" --