And Take note in this opne the Govt and Nationalmedia are still trying to blame it on a "Lone American" (right-Winger)--(Forget the evidence we at FBI want to blame some American no matter what!)
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FBI Opens Anthrax-Tainted Leahy Letter
December 6, 2001 6:31 pm EST
By Deborah Charles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forensic experts have opened an anthrax-tainted letter sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and are beginning a series of tests in an effort to discover who is responsible for the germ attacks that have killed five people.
FBI officials said on Thursday the letter was taken out of the envelope in a controlled environment at the Army's Ft. Detrick, Maryland, biomedical research laboratory. They have started a number of tests on the letter and its contents.
"Investigators are hopeful that the results of those tests -- expected in the coming days and weeks -- will yield clues which will bring us closer to identifying who is responsible for the anthrax attacks," the FBI said in a statement.
Pictures of the letter show it is virtually identical, with the same writing and text, to another anthrax-laden letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. It says: "You can not stop us. We have this anthrax. You die now. Are you afraid? Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great."
The Leahy letter, like the one sent to Daschle, was postmarked from Trenton, New Jersey, on Oct. 9 and dated Sept. 11 -- the same day 19 hijackers crashed commercial airplanes into the Pentagon, the World Trade Center and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 4,000 people.
Although there were fears that the spate of anthrax letters -- also sent to three media outlets -- were an extension of the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI officials have said they believe the person who wrote the letters was an "opportunist" who took advantage of the confusion that followed the September attacks.
Investigators believe one person wrote all of the letters and information gathered so far indicates they were an act of domestic rather than international terrorism.
CAREFUL PROCESS
Van Harp, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, said the process of analyzing the Leahy letter -- which provides the best evidence yet of all the anthrax letters -- will be slow and methodical.
Photographs on the FBI's Web site (www.fbi.gov) showed the letter being opened by person whose hands were in gloves that opened into an encased bubble. The person opened the plastic that held the letter, cut open the envelope then used tweezers to pull out the letter.
"There were a number of precautions that were taken very deliberately, and that was to maximize again our ability to analyze and benefit from this letter," he said. "It was opened under a controlled secure sterile environment in which we controlled motion and air."
"Our objective -- we hope to learn in the final analysis, literally, who did this and how they did it," he said.
Eighteen people have been infected with anthrax and five have died from the inhalation form of the disease since early October.
The letter addressed to Leahy, a Democrat like Daschle and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was discovered on Nov. 16 among 280 barrels of mail addressed to Capitol Hill that were set aside for examination after the Daschle letter was opened and found to contain anthrax.
Initial tests performed after the letter was discovered showed it contained a highly lethal amount of anthrax.
Authorities have said the letter to Leahy may have been misrouted through the State Department mail system before being sent to the Senate, possibly infecting a State Department employee, who has since recovered from his illness.
Sounds to me like TRIMPOTUS is involved. This is just one of those ordinary bureaucratic postal delivery errors that happens from time to time.