It is probably true that there are important elements within the government, such as CIA and FBI butt-coverers, clintonista holdovers and State Department arabists, whose agenda is to resist any connecting of the dots. From the Bush administration's standpoint, such forces represent useful idiots. Bush could put a stop to the whole thing with a single phone call. The appeasers' agenda can be exploited to further Bush policy objectives. This kind of political ju-jitsu is a recurring motif in Bush "strategery," if you haven't noticed by now. You have to look below the surface of things, you have to war game it out. Otherwise, you will understand nothing.
Truth is always the best policy. Thats what this country is all about. If we can handle thousands of nuclear ICBM's pointed at us, we can handle biological madness.
Let's take your theory back a bit in time. Let's consider the possibility that the first anthrax threat came in 1995 immediately after the OKC bombing. That could certainly explain why everyone's first reaction was that it was the work of ME terrorists, and why the the FBI put out BOLOS for them--and why within a couple of hours, all that was retracted and their participation was covered up.
Consider a broad timeline. I think Hussein was genuinely shocked at how rapidly his troops were defeated in '91--and he realized he could lose it all at our whim. In '92, Toon ran on PRC money--once elected, he began returning favors by opening doors for the PRC--especially into areas of our scientific expertise. By '93, Hussein attacked the WTC. This attempt was still amateurish. IIRC, I believe I read that they actually tried to use some kind of chemical weapon in the bomb, but it was destroyed by the bomb itself. By '95, he attacked OKC--this time much more professionally. What happened in those 2 years to take his people from amateurs to pros?
I can't prove it yet, but I think he and Zemin came to terms in some kind of agreement centered around the anthrax--which I think was developed in China. By that time, the PRC had learned enough knowledge from us and refined the stuff in a formula of their own. (Spertzel said a few days ago that the anthrax letters contained anthrax that had been refined far beyond anything he'd ever seen in the US or Russia.)
Hussein would have been looking for something to keep the US from attacking his regime, and China would have been looking for a way to keep the Clinton administration cooperating in the ongoing theft of our technology.
If this threat is what occurred immediately after the OKC bombing, it would also explain why the republicans did not expose Clinton's treason and remove him from office. It would explain why the Bush administration never exposed him or really cleaned house--and why they cooperated in sweeping everything under the rug. And it would explain why Bush let the PRC get away with taking our EP3.
Is this theory correct? I don't know--but I am keeping it in the back of my mind.
ravingnutter-
Thanks for all your info in #13.
For those that interested, honway and all have done a great job of beginning to expose the threads of al-Qaeda running from OKC to the WTC on this thread: