[Shermy]

Hate to bring up an old issue...not!

Anyone have a memory if this "fourth letter" idea panned in or out?

[muawiyah]

What happened is engineers at the Postal Service figured out that a single anthrax laden letter could express enough spores to contaminate yet other letters.

That's about the time they figured out the Brentwood facility was hopelessly contaminated!

The letter sent to the New York Post or to Tom Brokaw was never found, although they did discover "traces" it probably left behind.

So far the only good detective work done by any of the various cops involved in this investigation involved the discovery that the sealing tape wrapped around each of the discovered letters came from the same roll.

The clear implication was that the envelopes were prepared at the same time.

This discovery supports my own contention that all the letters were mailed in Florida, probably on the Friday evening before 9/11, and through the normally catastrophically poor handling USPS gives single-piece First-Class Mail being sent to a non-corporate address, all but one managed to get "delivered" several weeks late, after being processed in the wrong places!

[Wolfstar]

If memory serves, the Leahy letter was subsequently found, and it was believed to be the source for the State Dept. contamination. There were four recovered letters: two from NYC and two from Washington. I believe they were the Brokaw letter, the NY Post letter, and the letters to Daschle and Leahy. There were at least two known unrecovered letters: the one from AMI in Florida, and the one that went to Dan Rather's office. It's possible, but uncertain if there were other unrecovered letters.

[Mitchell]

Anyone have a memory if this "fourth letter" idea panned in or out?

I think the contamination referenced in this report was determined later to be cross-contamination from the Leahy letter. (The letter to Sen. Leahy was a fourth letter, unknown at the time of writing of this article. The three already-discovered letters at that time were the ones to the NY Post, to Tom Brokaw, and to Sen. Daschle.)