Entries by emptywheel

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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” —

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