The suicide of a suspect in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks in 2001 seems to have tied up that trauma into a neat package that can be filed away under national scare stories, case solved.
But the subject is too important for such a quick and tidy solution. As shocking as the attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon were, it was numbing weeks of public anxiety over deadly letters to the media and US Senators that spread fear across America to create an atmosphere that let Bush-Cheney Neo-Cons take us to war in Iraq and trample the Constitution.
Now, the anthrax story presumably ends with the death of researcher Bruce Ivins in the face of a therapist’s taped testimony that he had a “detailed homicidal plan” to kill his co-workers after learning he was going to be indicted on capital murder charges in the mailings.
But secrecy so far, according to Glenn Greenwald in Salon, “has generated far more questions about the anthrax attacks than it has answered” as he cites MSM complicity in efforts to tie the 2001 threat to “Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program.”