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Kent woman charged in White House anthrax hoax – Seattle Post Intelligencer

Kent woman charged in White House anthrax hoaxSeattle Post IntelligencerCOM STAFF A Kent woman has been charged with sending fake “anthrax letters” to the White House and King County government. Filing charges Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Seat…

Heck Named Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division

Director Robert S. Mueller, III named Brenda L. Heck special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division. Ms. Heck most recently served as deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters and has more than 22 years of service to the FBI.

The Great Illusion by Col. Randall Larsen

In a recent Washington Examiner column, Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, suggests that we worry too much about serious threats to national security. He posits that we are in an era of great peace and stability. To downplay the threat of bioterrorism, Mr. Healy quotes Milton Leitenberg from the University of  Read More »

In Ricin Bioterrorist Attack, Food Prep Surfaces Could Be Decontaminated With Household Bleach

Help for a bioterrorist attack involving ricin, one of the most likely toxic agents, may be as close at hand as the laundry shelf, according to a report presented here at the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). It concluded that ordinary household bleach appears to be an effective, low-cost,  Read More »

Did the Anthrax Attacks Kick-Start Iraq War?

On February 5, 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations, to make the case for war in Iraq. A central plank of his presentation: the anthrax attacks that killed five people and helped send the country into a panic in the days after 9/11. “Less than a teaspoon-full of dry anthrax  Read More »

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