upon reflection, i would have to agree with Glenn Greenwald that the Anthrax Scare had a greater impact on the integrity of the country than the bombings of the WTCs. The media was rendered docile (following the attacks at The Sun, The NY Post and The Enquirer as examples) and the Democratic Party (following the anthrax letters sent to Sens. Daschle and Feingold, again as examples).

just read the symptomology of pulmonary anthrax to get an idea of how horrible it is to contract: it was initially misdiagnosed as encephalitis.

http://www.historycommons.org/

Mueller is covering up more than the malfeasance of his own department.

From the CDC:

On October 2, 2001, a 63-year-old Caucasian photo editor working for a Florida newspaper awoke early with nausea, vomiting, and confusion and was taken to a local emergency room for evaluation. His illness, which started on September 27 during a trip to North Carolina, was characterized by malaise, fatigue, fever, chills, anorexia, and sweats. [snip] His condition progressively deteriorated, with hypotension and worsening renal insufficiency. The patient died on October 5. Autopsy findings included hemorrhagic mediastinal lymphadenitis, and immunohistochemical staining showed disseminated B. anthracis in multiple organs.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol7no6/jernigan.htm

The anthrax attacks began with the illness of Robert Stevens, a sixty-three year old British immigrant employed as a photo editor at the Sun, a supermarket tabloid newspaper published by American Media, Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida.

Preliminary testing indicated that Bacillus anthracis was present in samples taken from the American Media building where Stevens worked and the computer keyboard that he used. There was no reason why anthrax should be present in these areas. Investigators concluded that Stevens had been deliberately exposed. Jean Malecki, director of the Palm Beach County Health Department, ordered the American Media building closed. It has never reopened.

The ill mailroom clerk indicated the mode of transmission of anthrax into the American Media building. Some Sun employees recalled a trifolded letter containing powder and a small, plastic, gold-colored Star of David charm. They were uncertain of the text of the letter. Stevens had taken the letter and sat down at his keyboard with it on September 19.

On October 15, anthrax was found in letters sent to prominent U.S. Senators Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Russell Feingold (D-Wisconsin). Twenty members of Daschle’s staff were exposed, as were two Feingold workers and six responders from the Capitol Hill Police. The Hart Office Building, home to Daschle and Feingold, was ordered closed on October 16 and would not open again until January 2002, when decontamination had been completed.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3448300030.html

My theory is that it was one of Cheney’s special ops, just to whip up the fear factor a little more, and enable their putsch.

Bob in AZ

I agree and I’ll take it a step further and say I believe Mueller knows Cheney is responsible for authorizing the scheme and the subsequent efforts to frame Hatfill and Ivins ending with a hit on Ivins that was designed to look like a suicide to close the case and bury the truth.

I will readily admit that my default position is to always suspect the worst in any matter involving the Cheney-Bush Administration. I hate to say it, but I also believe there isn’t anything Obama wouldn’t do to cover-up what they did.