[Shermy]

Re: 10

Thought about your comment more.

I think that explains the "mailer didn't think anthrax would leak out in the mail" story line.

In my view, the mailer didn't particularly care. The tape was good enough to get most of the germs to the target.

But for someone trying to pin the mailing on the benevolent scientist theory, the post office infections don't help the theory. Therefore the spin is the scientist "miscalculated" and so on.

[John H K]

So why do the letters say it's anthrax and to take an antibiotic?

The mailer could have killed far more people by surreptitiously dispersing it. And it would have been clear it was anthrax, eventually.

And had far more terror effect.

But, it's essentially the "PC" of FR to blindly toe the AQ line on the anthrax attacks and simply make snide mocking comments to anything that even remotely hints of anything to the contrary, and basically blindly ignore the above, the fact the only government targets were Democratic senators, etc.