[The Great Satan]

I disagree. The operational decoy spin before the "rogue scientist"-Barbara Nutbag theory was the "rightwing militia" theory, which was injected into the public arena by Bob Woodward. Woodward is the quintessential insider, viz his recent WP series on Bush's War on Terror, or his Gulf War book, The Commanders. If he was used to put out that red herring, knowingly or unknowingly, then clearly the administration does not care if it has to pander to lefties' wish-fulfillment fantasies to keep up the stall. Hey, whatever works! Besides, they'll get egg on their faces in the end. Actually, it all sounds very much like the George W. Bush we have come to know -- remember his strategic lovefest with Teddy Kennedy a few weeks back? The overwhelming issue was and is how to manage the anthrax threat without putting the economy in a tailspin -- everything else is small potatoes.

[muawiyah]

Everybody knows Woodward put out that story on a right-winger as a decoy for the fact that Planned Parenthood had just gotten caught preparing to send hundreds of thousands of fake anthrax threat letters as a fund-raising, fear-mongering exercise.

He didn't know squat about the anthrax attack then, and he still doesn't know anything about it.

The man is a shill for left-wing and abortion interests. Nothing more!