Bush announces Daschle received Anthrax letter

Reuters, via AP ^ | 15 October 2001 | Reuters

[YaYa123]

Stop deleting this report...it is valid!

"WASHINGTON (AP) - A letter opened in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle ``had anthrax in it,'' President Bush (news - web sites) said Monday.

Bush said the envelope was field-tested shortly after being received, and the staffers who have been exposed are being treated.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Bush said ``there may be some possible link'' between Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and a recent flurry of anthrax-related developments.

``I wouldn't put it past him but we don't have any hard evidence,'' he said of the man suspected as the leader behind Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed thousands.

A spokesman for Daschle said the suspicious package was received at the majority leader's office in a Senate office building across the street from the Capitol.

Separately, one source said that when it was opened, a powdery white substance fell out. Capitol Police were summoned, the office sealed, and the workers immediately given a text for anthrax exposure. There was no immediate word on the results of those tests.

But Bush, in responding to a reporter's question, said he had just talked with Daschle. ``His office received a letter and it had anthrax in it. The letter was field-tested. And the staffers that have been exposed are being treated.''

The president made his comments after a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the latest in a steady stream of foreign leaders to visit Washington in the wake of the terrorist attacks."

[eaglebeak]

What an interesting choice of words. People who hate the United States attack his office and he is disappointed.... At what? That they would attack him instead of a conservative? No it is a the typical liberal PC response.. they are always disappointed.

During the news conference I saw live, Daschle said he was "disappointed and angry." Rush is doing his job by stirring up the pot, that's all.

[Fury]

Just a supposition. Do you think this anthrax scare could be the work of real "right-wing" extremists?

Sure, it's possible. And if you check out DUh (DemocraticUnderground.com), you'll see some threads that mention this sort of thing. Of course, their threads include little fact, logic and reasoning. Rush was mentioning the same sort of thing being reported at www.smartertimes.com.

Basically, it's a way for Leftists to somehow take a dangerious incident and spin it to political advantage. Do you expect different? The Dems are masters of spin. One need only look at the comments by Congresswoman McKinney concerning the Mayor of New York. Disgusting...

[jammer]

Don't you get laetrile from bitter almonds? You may have an anti-carcinogenic bonus from your coffee. I try to get my anti-carcinogenics from cheese. Do you know if cheese has any?

[HiTech RedNeck]

If you threaten a leftist weenie, he starts yelling "Stop the Bombing, Stop the Bombing."

If our buddy Osama had only taken time out of the Koran to read Free Republic, he would have known that the liberal's response to attack on their person is far more likely to be "ULK! Guess I was wrong!" Isn't it funny how handgun demand has gone up 500% already since 9/11; doesn't that look like blue zone epiphany?

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the lethality/morbidity rate from these anthrax mails stays as low as it has been, wanna bet this will be viewed as a "Weapon of Mass Annoyance."

OK, let's answer with a small battlefield nuke on Saddamn's palace.

[netmadness]

I think WMH, Weapon of Mass Hysteria is apt

[Rome2000]

Daschle, Brokaw, NYT etc all left wing. McVeigh types taking advantage of the WTC situation to go after the socialists ???

Yeah, the right wing has been waiting for just this opportunity to send their biological weapons to the left.

Maybe a more rational explanation would be that the same group that doesn't know who Bert from Sesame Street is and would include his likeness in their posters honoring raghead in chief Bin Laden don't know enough about the nuances of the American politik to realize that the left would have eventualy come around to supporting their cause.

In spite of the Anthrax attacks, I give 50-50 odds that the left will still throw their support to the terrorists within a fortnight.

[aristeides]

If the letter was postmarked Sept. 18, why wasn't it opened until today?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sorry. I guessed wrong for Dassle. He is disappointed. Perhaps because he didn't personally open the package.

[aristeides]

The story we have been given is that the letter to Brokaw was received on Sept. 18 and postmarked in Trenton. I wonder if that is the result of confusion, and if Sept. 18 is in fact the date the letter was postmarked, the same date the letter to Daschle was apparently postmarked. Whoever did this may have mailed a bunch of stuff at the time. Would that post office still have security tapes from that date? I wonder if a postal clerk remembers anything.

[AmishDude]

If you were a senator from SOUTH DAKOTA and in today's climate received a suspicious package postmarked from TRENTON, NJ, why would you open it? . . . What were they thinking???

Small, unmarked bills, I imagine.

:) :) :)

[cricket]

"Just a supposition. Do you think this anthrax scare could be the work of real "right-wing" extremists?"

A supposition that many might give a thought to; but unfortunately the NYT's took it a bit further to the irresponsible, for even gifting this conjecture with 'ink'.

Having done that, I guess they never considered the opposite possibility; that someone on the LEFT, did this; with the idea that they could then offer such poisonous conjecture against the 'Right'. . .

After all, who is really hurting here. . .who has been dead-ended in their rhetoric against all things Republican; who has lost all momentum for THEIR causes? Who has almost been made irrelevant?

Republicans? Not. . .

Of course, this is somewhat stupid; about as stupid as the baited conversations about the 'VRWC' revisited.

Trenton was after all, home to some 'terrorists'; sleeping cell or awake. . .more than a few ME's rejoicing at WTC attack as so reported; or something close...

But, better for NYT's to roast the 'RightWing' than a pig. . .

(Clinton's baby brother ever go to Trenton; any of his 'mob' friends live there. . .are there more Liberals living in Trenton as opposed to say. . .Conservatives? Maybe the NYT's should have done a little research. . .)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[stripes1776]

The idea of the terrorists is to create the perception of terror. They want everyone to be afraid of openning their mail. If they can arouse suspicions and create divisions among the population, that would be a plus for them.

They will stop at nothing to destroy America. We must crush them as soon as possible. We need a relentless bombing of Afghanistan to destroy the terrorists and the government that supports them.

[Archaeus]

But why Daschle? Something smells about all this.

[Rheo]

or anyone....Oliver North was saying on his radio show today that Fox News is in lockdown quarantine due to an anthrax scare in Brit Humes office...has anyone seen anything posted about this...I cannot find it.

[ruthles]

To be suspicious of the political party which shelters the BS surrounding election fraud, Louis Farakhan, Gary Condit, Vince Foster and the Reverend Jesse Jackson (to mention but a few)is only stooping to the level where the deomocrats have proven to us they do business, and where we unfortunately have had to investigate. I do not delight in any ill will toward a liberal or anybody else for that matter. I'm so glad you "feel their pain." Clinton taught you well.

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[YaYa123]

I'm watching FOXNews...John Gibson...no mention of such a thing and he's discussing the letters going to Tom Brokaw and Daschle. You'd think this would be part of the story...if true.

[Rheo]

That's what I thought...but Oliver said he was broadcasting from the Fox News building and it was in lockdown due to an anthrax scare received in Brits's office....cannot imagine he was joking....maybe he was parodying the VRWC theory and I missed it.....if it's not on FreeRepublic then it probably didn't happen.

Stay well.