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Ah...saw "memo" which implies internal communication within an organization, and thus missed it being described as TO the FBI.

If you or I wrote to the FBI with my analysis on a case, it's not a MEMO, it's a LETTER written by a random crank with delusions of grandeur.

So why letters to Daschle and Leahy? Leahy, outside the US, is not a high-profile figure, and neither of the two are the most pro-Israel Senators. And apparently not even an attempt to get a letter INSIDE the White House or Pentagon, or anywhere in the Executive Branch(kind of odd to attempt to crash a plane into it but to not bother trying to get anthrax in, if it's the same attackers.) Making it LOOK like a domestic right-winger, like OKC, supposedly? Then why a letter that doesn't attempt to make it look like a domestic right-winger?

If you or I wrote to the FBI with my analysis on a case, it's not a MEMO, it's a LETTER written by a random crank with delusions of grandeur.

Speak for yourself! Maybe if you wrote such a letter... (but even I wouldn't say that -- I disagree with you, but I don't think you're a random crank). Are you really suggesting that everybody who writes a letter to the FBI is a random crank? (Not that there aren't some, of course.)

I do agree that it should have been called a letter, not a memo, of course. It's just an analysis by a blogger (there's nothing wrong with that -- that's what it is).

So why letters to Daschle and Leahy? Leahy, outside the US, is not a high-profile figure, and neither of the two are the most pro-Israel Senators. And apparently not even an attempt to get a letter INSIDE the White House or Pentagon, or anywhere in the Executive Branch(kind of odd to attempt to crash a plane into it but to not bother trying to get anthrax in, if it's the same attackers.) Making it LOOK like a domestic right-winger, like OKC, supposedly? Then why a letter that doesn't attempt to make it look like a domestic right-winger?

No, I don't think the terrorists' knowledge of domestic politics is sophisticated enough for that to have been the rationale. Sen. Daschle is the leader of the Senate, and Sen. Leahy has an important committee chairmanship. As for the White House, they thought it was going to be destroyed -- why would they plan on sending anthrax there? They wanted to attack both the executive and the legislative branches, and they did, in two different ways (although I still think the anthrax mailings may have been more of a threat than an attack).

So why letters to Daschle and Leahy? Leahy, outside the US, is not a high-profile figure, and neither of the two are the most pro-Israel Senators. And apparently not even an attempt to get a letter INSIDE the White House or Pentagon, or anywhere in the Executive Branch(kind of odd to attempt to crash a plane into it but to not bother trying to get anthrax in, if it's the same attackers.) Making it LOOK like a domestic right-winger, like OKC, supposedly? Then why a letter that doesn't attempt to make it look like a domestic right-winger?

Atta and company lived here long enough to know who was making headlines politically -- Leahy and Daschle were prominently featured in the news in 2001, and represented the government. The White House was widely-rumored to have security screening (whether or not they screened mail for anthrax, who knew?), making it a waste of a letter.

The perp also selected the major newspapers and TV networks, along with the publisher of what a Muslim would consider blasphemous -- the National Enquirer. The New York Post is not a liberal publication, but it has always been known for its pro-Israel support. Think of the targets as chosen by a non-American America-hater, holed up mostly in hotel rooms, watching TV and reading newspapers.

Also, if it was Atta, his expectation might be that the White House and Pentagon would no longer exist by the time the letters reached their destination.

I meant to add that it's hard to come up with a concrete reason that right-wing conspirators would have selected Sens. Daschle and Leahy to target (plus the NY Post and AMI). While these may not be their favorite Senators, they aren't the icons that the supposed VRWC hates. How could "right-wing militia types" have failed to target the IRS, or BATF, or Sen. Clinton, or Sen. Kennedy?