[John H K]

Everyone needs to read Laurie Mylroie's new book Bush Vs the Beltway, in which she lays out the case against Iraq. It seems our own CIA and FBI had political reasons for trying to lay this on Hatfield instead of Iraq

Popular on FR but this is quite possibly the stupidest theory on anything ever devised.

[wayoverontheright]

Everyone needs to read Laurie Mylroie's new book Bush Vs the Beltway, in which she lays out the case against Iraq. It seems our own CIA and FBI had political reasons for trying to lay this on Hatfield instead of Iraq

Popular on FR but this is quite possibly the stupidest theory on anything ever devised.

It's not at all impossible that Saddam Hussein wanted to strike at America in a clandestine manner, also not implausible that some among the neutered, politicized, Clintonized intelligence bureaus tried in knee-jerk fashion to pin the anthrax episode on a domestic source. Thus far they have failed to implicate Hatfield, and the attempt to do so seems pretty stupid at this point, because a great deal of evidence points to Iraq as the source.

Whether deriving from political reasons or ineptitude is beside the point, Iraq should have been looked at more closely IMHO.