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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 11:32 PM
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Would the same kind of people who name a CIA agent also mail anthrax?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Amr1019.htm

<snip>Apparently -- while in Iraq -- Miller had a direct line to Rumsfeld and threatened to use it when army officers conducting WMD searches didn’t obey her marching orders. And let’s not forget Miller’s Anthrax hoax. At a time when she was busy marketing her Germs book -- she set off an alarm about a suspicious envelope that might contain some of the deadly spores. The Times building was evacuated and emergency teams were sent in to inspect the premises. Traffic in Manhattan came to a crawl as streets were cordoned off and her book sales went through the roof. Was it all a prank? Given her track record, shouldn’t that incident be investigated to determine if she committed a felony? What’s the difference between that and calling in a bomb threat?

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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 11:36 PM
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1. I had assumed Frist sent the anthrax,
you know, Senator to Senator, and he has the medical knowledge and owns laboratories, but I hadn't heard of Miller's publicity stunt before. Hmmm...
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 11:40 PM
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2. she may have been part of helping Rove with this!
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 11:52 PM
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3. do you have a link for that anthrax story? I would love to annoy my
little trolls with it.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 11:59 PM
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4. Here is one there are more out there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax_hoax

October 12: The New York Times briefly closes its offices after Judith Miller, a reporter who coauthored "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War", receives an envelope postmarked October 5 from St. Petersburg, Florida containing a white, sweet-smelling powder. The letter was addressed with crude handwritten block letters, with no return address. She opens it at 9:15 a.m. EDT and the powder coats her face and hands. It is later found not to contain anthrax. 32 employees were tested, and none was found to have been exposed to anthrax.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 12:58 AM
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5. the powder coated her face and hands?
did she think it was a cocaine package from the bush family? did she rub her face in it and snort it?
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