[Marxism] "the single greatest, unresolved media scandal of this decade"

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Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News
 
 
Glenn Greenwald - salon.com - August 1 -
 
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The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks -- Bruce E.  
Ivins -- _died Tuesday night_ 
(http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax1-2008aug01,0,2864223.story) , apparently by  suicide, just as the 
Justice Department was about to charge him with  responsibility for the 
attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top anthrax  researcher at the U.S. 
Government's biological weapons research laboratories at  Ft. Detrick, Maryland, 
where he was one of the most elite government anthrax  scientists on the 
research team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of  Infectious Disease 
(USAMRIID).  
The 2001 anthrax attacks remain one of the great mysteries of the post-9/11  
era. After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most 
consequential  event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they 
were  actually more consequential. The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic 
for the  country, but in the absence of the anthrax attacks, 9/11 could easily 
have been  perceived as a single, isolated event. It was really the anthrax 
letters -- with  the first one sent on September 18, just one week after 9/11 -- 
that severely  ratcheted up the fear levels and created the climate that would 
dominate in this  country for the next several years after. It was anthrax -- 
sent directly into  the heart of the country's elite political and media 
institutions, to  then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), Sen. Pat Leahy 
(D-Vt), NBC News  anchor Tom Brokaw, and other leading media outlets -- that 
created the  impression that social order itself was genuinely threatened by 
Islamic  radicalism.  
If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then  
that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab, sent by a top U.S.  
Army scientist at Ft. Detrick. Without resort to any speculation or 
inferences  at all, it is hard to overstate the significance of that fact. From the  
beginning, there was a clear intent on the part of the anthrax attacker to  
create a link between the anthrax attacks and both Islamic radicals and the 9/11  
attacks. By design, those attacks put the American population into a state of  
intense fear of Islamic terrorism, far more than the 9/11 attacks alone could 
 have accomplished.  
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Much more important than the general attempt to link the anthrax to Islamic  
terrorists, there was a specific intent -- indispensably aided by ABC News -- 
to  link the anthrax attacks to Iraq and Saddam Hussein. In my view, and I've  
written about this _several times_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/09/abc_anthrax/)  and _in great detail_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/11/abc_response/)  to no avail, the role played by ABC  News 
in this episode is the single greatest, unresolved media scandal of this  
decade. News of Ivins' suicide, which means (presumably) that the anthrax  attacks 
originated from Ft. Detrick, adds critical new facts and heightens how  
scandalous ABC News' conduct continues to be in this matter.  
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<_http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html_ (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html) >






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