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<< This is all very interesting, I suppose, but it looks like you've gone far afield.
What is the connection, if any, with the anthrax mailings? >>

I do not know. May be nothing. But just.... maybe....

Here is the chaine of thought:

The addressees are widely believed to have been selected for some reason, yet unknown.
World Wide Web coverage of political affairs and other news is quite complete starting with early 1990s but is spotty for earlier events.
Amateur sleuthers have exhaustively googled the World Wide Web for connexions linking Leahy, Daschle, Brokaw, etc, with some explanation but have found nothing.
Conclusion: The reason these targets were selected goes back to an event or events in the 1980s or earlier.
It has been pointed out that whoever planned the operation thought of TV news as the 3 networks NBC, CBS, and ABC. This points to someone who thinks of the world as it was before cable news burst on the scene in early 1991. Consistent with a person to whom events of the 1980s are personally meaningful.
Leahy is the least wellknown of the addressees, so the most surprising. One is led to ask firstly why he of all possibilities was chosen.
Go on to ask: What was Leahy known for in the 1980s?
Answer: Intelligence leaks, grounded in gross breach of trust. Being << Leaky Leahy >> is, in point of fact, the only thing he is widely known for. What a legacy. This could rile up emotions.
Three major Leahy intelligence leaks are known. All are from the years 1985-1987:
- A leak which cost the life of an Egyptian involved in the capture of the Achille Lauro murderers.
- A leak of a planned operation to overthrow Muammar Qadaffi in Libya. Leahy had threatened Wm Casey that he would leak this in order to cause the operation to be canceld. After the leak, it was canceld.
- A leak to NBC News of a prelim draft of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Iran-contra report. Leahy, vice-chairman of the committee, was forced to resign his post over this.
Concentrate on the Iran-contra leak because of the connexion to another target, NBC News.
Tom Brokaw, the addressee at NBC News, was prime mover behind NBC's Iran-contra investigations at the time of Leahy's Iran-contra leak.

Iran-contra connects Leahy and Brokaw in 1987. Two of the addressees, and in the right timing frame.

Common sense says to look more closely at those events to see who might have unfinished business to take care of.

The anwser may be - a lot of people. Leahy and the network news media played an influential rôle in the institutional dismantling of US covert activities. This was resented widely among covert operatives and their supporters, and was thought by them to be very bad policy too. This was the perspectivo among the Iran-contra cabalists and among other operatives also. There's this Thomas Clines, who, wrongly or rightly, was singled out alone for prison time, and may bear resentment against his erstwhile colleagues and Pres GHW Bush. There was Clines' close friend, the elder TGS, who had risen in the CIA since the early days and who thought he was to follow GHW Bush eventually as DCI, but who was thrown overboard instead. His peculiarly phrased remarques about the anthrax case I quoted above in Post 43.

There are others one could look at too - this doesn't even delve into the Achille Lauro leak or the Libya leak.

Is there a connexion to the 2001 anthrax letters? I don't know..... but there is more substance here than there was in that Greendale School business that garnerred so much attention.

I have just learned that September 18, 2001, the day on which the first wave of anthrax letters was sent, was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Follow that link and scroll down (I'm "mitch p."), to see me trying to assimilate this fact.

A synopsis:

Bin Laden's International Islamic Front exists to fight the Crusader-Zionist alliance (in secular language: Christian and Jewish imperialism). Organizationally, it was principally an alliance between Egyptian and Saudi Islamists.
Egypt is the pivot of the Arab world - the largest Arab country, under Nasser the leader of the fight against Israel, under Sadat the first to recognize Israel, and the place in which people like Zawahiri hope to restore the caliphate. (I believe I read, in Peter Lance's Thousand Years for Revenge, a rant by the blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, in which he talks about a "snake with two heads", one in Egypt, one in Israel.)
The Coptic Christians are the largest non-Islamic group in Egyptian society, and a target of Islamist suspicion and persecution. Sadat's foreign minister, the future UN Secretary-General during the era of the peace process, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, is a Copt.
September 11, 2001, was the Coptic New Year (and also the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of Egypt's current constitution, which took place under Sadat).
September 18, 2001, was the Jewish New Year.
Shortly after 9/11, both bin Laden and his ally Hamid Gul floated the idea that the attack was the work of Jews angry about Bush's election victory in Florida.
The hijackers positioned themselves in Palm Beach County, home of the butterfly ballot, after the election. That is where the first anthrax case occurred, and reportedly the J-Lo letter contained a Star of David (although, as with everything surrounding the Florida anthrax letters, this is far from certain).

So it looks as if 9/11 was a blow directed at the Crusaders, especially their fellow-travelers in Egypt, and 9/18 was a follow-up, somehow meant to sow dissension between the Crusaders and their allies, the Zionists.