In response to Glenn Greenwald's "Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News"
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html) on Friday Aug. 1, 2008, I wrote:
"I've long been convinced that neoconservative elements were involved with the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax scare, the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping (see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/business/14qwest.html) and a thousand other nefarious plots to aid them in dominating the American government and its resources. Given that position, your article served to deepen that belief with regard to the oft-forgotten anthrax scare. As you note, the scare occurred just as the public psyche was attempting to come to terms with the 9/11 attacks. The scare operated to elongate the public's panic and invigorate its need to feel secure. Much like 9/11, the scare was never solved (unless you consider the coerced confession of KSM that served as the backbone for the 9/11 report's conclusions) and the scare's perpetrator, like bin Laden, was never ferreted out.
Despite all of this, in my many years of sharing these thoughts with others, the seminal question I always return to is: would you really want to know if neoconservative elements in this country were responsible for effectuating the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent global war on terror? This sentiment was well presented in the movie "V" in the scene where the policeman, who has discovered that the British government was behind an attack on its own people, asks his unwitting partner, "would you really want to know if you own government had betrayed you?"
It's an interesting exercise to ask yourself the same question with regard to the anthrax scare. If Locy, Stewart, Kristof or Ross were forced to reveal their sources and those sources (if they didn't commit "suicide" themselves) confirmed that the scare was an internal operation, then what? Would putting the responsible elements on trial for treason repair the wounds of the last eight years? Lower gas prices? Lead to a withdrawal from Iraq? What if every notion this country has been operating on for the last eight years turned out to be a scheme concocted by neoconservative elements to dominate the very populace they pretend to protect? Would you want to know?"
