13-01-2016, 03:21 PM
I picked this book up recently and I'm about halfway through it. I distinctly remember in October 2001 being VERY skeptical about the anthrax letters for one reason - the targets. Two key Democratic Senators, some relatively liberal news people. Why would Al Qaeda target them? Why not Dick Cheney, Fox News, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Rush Limbaugh?
They were trying to ram the PATRIOT Act through at that time, and their heads were exploding because Daschle and Leahy weren't moving quite fast enough. They were going to give them the damn thing, they just wanted to make it look like they were doing their jobs and actually reviewing it. Nope, not good enough. Not fast enough. Here, Senators, watch your staff get poisoned by anthrax.
They were trying to ram the PATRIOT Act through at that time, and their heads were exploding because Daschle and Leahy weren't moving quite fast enough. They were going to give them the damn thing, they just wanted to make it look like they were doing their jobs and actually reviewing it. Nope, not good enough. Not fast enough. Here, Senators, watch your staff get poisoned by anthrax.