Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who was a target of the 2001 anthrax attacks, isn't buying the FBI's recent conclusion regarding the attack's perpetrator. He spoke with the Washington Post about his misgivings, including his belief that the case is "not closed."The Post story also usefully reminded readers that then Senator Tom Daschle was another target of the anthrax mailings. The article noted that a number of former Daschle aides now work in high levels of the Obama administration. They might be inclined to work behind the scenes toward achieving a more believable investigatory conclusion than the FBI's "lone assassin" theory.
I still have a plastic bag used by the USPS during the anthrax scare; our postal mail was delivered in it. It won't do the FBI any good, but it serves as a reminder of a dark, unsolved, and very frightening episode in the strange days immediately following September 11, 2001.
The photo shows FBI agents wearing protective suits during their 2001 investigation of the anthrax affair.
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