(2)Because they liked the way Klintoon pinned OKC wholly on McVeigh so much that they thought they could accomplish their terror objective while also getting cover from a "right wing extremist" theory, and that cover is exactly what they got from the start.
Here's an article from the Washington Post, which most of the elites consider to be a "reputable news source", quoting Richard Spertzel, one of the world's foremost experts on bioweapons, who disagrees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A28334-2002Oct27¬Found=true
On an unrelated note, why exactly are you here on Free Republic? Whenever I see you here, it seems like it is almost always to attack other people, whether it was people suggesting that the Beltway Snipers might be Muslims, or people suggesting that Iraq has fostered much of the terrorist acts against us over the last ten years. In fact, a few days ago an another thread you made the outrageous suggestion that some people here want to see another major terrorist attack against us. Are you even a conservative?
Suppose you don't know who the Big Wheels in the U.S. government are. Other than the President, you haven't heard of any of them. You're in a foreign country that you don't really understand.
You can tell by turning on the TV who the big networks are. And driving down the freeway, you saw that building named "American Media." You pick up a newspaper, and there are big stories about this Daschle character and some guy named Leahy. You don't know who they are, but they must be important to get such news coverage.
The explanation could be that easy.
The anthrax thing had to be some sort of a shot across the bow on the part of the Iraqis. The stuff was particalized to such an extent that it went right through the paper of envelopes while at the same time was not weaponized or otherwise resistant to antibiotics. A very strange combination of approaches if domestically produced, but precisely what you'd expect as a warning from the Iraqis.
Obviously, nobody can be allowed to get away with such a thing.
The only channel they get is CNN?
Why do you assume the perpetrators of the anthrax attacks INTENDED to kill few people with it? The most likely reason is a miscalculation. The perps wanted to bring down American government, military, financial institutions, and media all in one fell swoope. The fact that the first known letter went to an outfit called American Media is telling. Other letters went to Brokaw and Rather, two famous U.S. media personalities. One may have also gone to Jennings, since a child who visited ABC got sick. But the source was never determined.
As for Daschle and Leahy, to anyone unfamiliar with our system of government, in the months prior to 9/11 Daschle would have seemed like the guy in charge of the whole Congress. Leahy was also all over the tube during that time being interviewed about judicial appointments. So he could easily have seemed more important than he was (or is).
The hijackings were intended to take out easily identifiable financial, military and government targets. The flight that came down in Pennsylvania is believed to have been intended for the White House or the Capitol. It is also believed that other hijackers were in the air that day, but didn't act before air traffic was shut down nationwide.
There are no easily identifiable ABC-CBS-NBC targets that could be taken out from the air. But the anthrax could do it (or so the perps thought). Plus, it had the added benefit of serving as a backup operation if any one hijacking attempt didn't go according to plan.
Although they did succeed in slaughtering over 3000 people, shutting down our air traffic, government, and financial institutions, and rocking the country back on its heels for a short while, luck actually wasn't entirely with them. The twin towers and Pentagon attrocities killed far fewer people than what might have been the case a little later in the day, or if the towers came down faster, or, in the case of the Pentagon plane, if it had hit more squarely into the heart of the building. The Pennsylvania plane did not hit its intended target. And the anthrax attacks sowed lots of fear, but killed few.