Daschle Critical Of Anthrax Probe

(AP)  Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over.

Daschle said the FBI has not given him any new updates. He also raised questions about the quality of the investigation, noting that the government recently paid out almost $6 million to a former Army scientist, Steven Hatfill, who accused authorities of unfairly targeting him in the anthrax case.

"From the very beginning I've had real concerns about the quality of the investigation," Daschle said in a broadcast interview. "Given the fact that they already paid somebody else $5 million for the mistakes they must have made gives you some indication of the overall caliber and quality of the investigation."

Five people died and 17 others were sickened when anthrax-laced letters began showing up at congressional offices, newsrooms and post offices soon after Sept. 11, 2001.

The case re-emerged in the news this past week as investigators prepared to charge a government scientist Bruce Ivins in the case. Ivins died Tuesday in what has been ruled a suicide.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't bring anything to closure," Daschle said. "This probably further complicates their ability to get to the facts."

He said he did not know if the investigation involving Ivins "is just another false track and a real diversion of where they need to be. We don't know, and they aren't telling us."

Tom Ridge, Bush's Homeland Security secretary at the time of the anthrax attacks, said he did not know what evidence the FBI had uncovered against Ivins.

"But I know that they were relentless, relentless, both domestically and overseas, both with the notion that it could have been a part of a broader terrorist network, but it could also have been the act of a deranged individual or two," Ridge said.

Daschle appeared on "Fox News Sunday," while Ridge was on "This Week" on ABC.

[lambor59]

The Anthrax smells like *** Cheney or may be Bush, These 2 cr%u01A1oks must have their hands in this operation.

[cbs_bull]

I think this government owes us an explanation why they think Ivins is the culprit. They have been proven incompetent in the Hatfill''s case. They have to show us now why Ivins is not the 2nd Hatfill. We need evidence.

[mydiatribe]

Never thought Tom Dashele and I could ever agree on anything, but on this investigation
I say: ''Right On Tom!'' Go Get them! Sic''em boy!

[samsel3]

Another case of CIA assisted suicide.......Dr. Ivins joins another Fort Detrick Alumni, Dr. Frank Olson. The dead cannot speak and incriminate their perpetrators.

"While aides to Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney helped cover up the background to the death of CIA scientist, Frank Olson who fell from a 10th floor window in 1953, not long after he had been classified as a potential security risk."

"Olson''s son Eric says his father''s conscience was troubled by awareness of Nazi-style CIA experiments on human subjects. "Frank Olson was not, after all a civilian employee of the Army. He was a CIA employee working at Fort Detrick on precursor programs to MK-ULTRA, specializing in anthrax aerosols, possibly for for use in covert assassination.
Olson''s passport, indicates that in the summer of 1953 --only months before his death-- he had visited secret joint American-British testing and research installations near Frankfurt, Germany where he had likely witnessed terminal experiments on expendable prisoners. His misgivings were such that a British intelligence agent who became aware of them recommended that Olson be denied further access to Porton Down, the British chemical-weapons research establishment."

[samsel3]

In an interview with Merideth Viera on NBC this morning August 4, 2008, the bureau chief of the Fort Detrick lab, and boss of Dr. Ivins said: " I don''t beleive anything the Government is saying about Bruce Ivins".

[jmurrieta1]

And just exactly what was this "new DNA technique" that wasn''t available in 2001 or 2003 or 2005?

Strange how our crusading free press just has never managed to get this information to the public.

It''s almost like the FBI and the Bushite administration made it up to excuse their appalling lack of performance.

Or maybe, just maybe, they don''t want us to know.

[neoconrcrazy]

Sorry I was being cynical perhaps a little too much.

Posted by Marshall_Nee


it''s ok dude - consider yourself not reported.

[neoconrcrazy]

try to imagine -

from Sept 11th to Oct 23rd 2001 only 40 days passed

and within those 40 days the anthrax was planned?

seems like very little time .....

So was it planned before 9-11 ?

It is just coincidence it happened shortly after 9-11?

Why did our government immediately accuse iraq?

When we have the knowledge to identify the various strains of anthrax and their production origin?

anyone getting frightened?

[marshall_nee]

Posted by neoconRcrazy at 07:42 AM : Aug 04, 2008

Sorry I was being cynical perhaps a little too much.

[neoconrcrazy]

Daschle would do well to keep quiet, otherwise, he might be getting another ''''letter'''' in the not too distant future.


Posted by Marshall_Nee



sick dude - consider yourself reported.