Perhaps, so. But we also know that al-Qaeda and its terror cells have had an extraordinary and continuing interest in cyanide. However, in reading the Salon article, I came across this passage -- opening up another line of questioning.
The Nunn-Lugar bill, which included $235 million for training local "first responders" to a chemical or biological attack, passed 100-0. But that was merely the gateway to a mushrooming federal anti-terrorism crusade that now costs upwards of $1 billion a year -- and perhaps twice that, according to some experts -- and that last week led to the creation of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which will "spend hundreds of millions of dollars in research for better sensors and technology to detect biological and chemical weapons," according to the Associated Press.
Did not Jamie Gorelick chair the Defense Threat Reduction Agency? So, Salon's "unfounded rumor" was responsible for creating yet another Jamie Gorelick entree to counter-terrorism.
Ms. Gorelick seems to have served as a one-woman "first line of defense". Whether for the U.S. or the Clinton administration is yet to be determined...