{"id":1276,"date":"2008-09-17T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2008-09-17T18:42:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T22:42:05","slug":"anthrax-at-least-leahy-cares-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/17\/anthrax-at-least-leahy-cares-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax: At Least Leahy Cares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recall that the Feds tried to wrap up their investigation of the October 2001 anthrax attacks and pin it on a single fellow who had very conveniently just killed himself.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/01\/death-of-remaining-suspect-in-anthrax-terrorism-labeled-suicide\/\">it was bullshit<\/a> then, and it seems that Sen. Pat Leahy is with me in thinking that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/09\/leahy_suspect_had_help_in_anth.php\">it&#8217;s bullshit now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people. I do not believe that at all,&#8221; Leahy said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others out there, I believe there are others who could be charged with murder. I just want you to know how I feel about it, as one of the people who was aimed at in the attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[FBI Director Robert ] Mueller did not directly contradict Leahy, saying &#8220;I understand that concern.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I fear that this case will be scrubbed clean by the time anyone who cares is actually in a position to do anything about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recall that the Feds tried to wrap up their investigation of the October 2001 anthrax attacks and pin it on a single fellow who had very conveniently just killed himself.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was bullshit then, and it seems that Sen. Pat Leahy is with me in thinking that it&#8217;s bullshit now: &#8220;If he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}