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Anthrax Sender May Have Military Past, Daschle Says
Reuters via NYTimes.com ^
| 12/08/2001
Posted on 12/08/2001 11:33:15 AM PST by GeneD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose Capitol Hill office received an anthrax-laced letter in October, said on Saturday he believes the sender was probably someone with a military background.
``I think as we look at all the possibilities, that one has the greatest degree of credibility right now,'' the South Dakota Democrat said on CNN's ``Novak, Hunt and Shields'' program.
While the source or sources of the anthrax-laced letters sent to Daschle, Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and the offices of three news media is not known, investigators have said they believe they were of domestic origin.
They have also raised the possibility that the sender had served in or worked with the military.
Asked if he believes the source was someone with a military background, Daschle said, ``That's correct.'' Daschle has been in frequent contact with investigators.
Eighteen people have been infected with anthrax and five have died from the inhalation form of the disease since early October. The Senate Hart Office Building is still closed and undergoing decontamination from a letter opened in Daschle's office on Oct. 15.
On a separate issue, Daschle threw cold water on many lawmakers' hopes that Congress will recess for the year by next weekend.
``We'll be in to a period of time up until just about Christmas,'' he said. ``I'm convinced that if we're going to get economic stimulus and the insurance bill and the appropriations bills completed, there is no way we'll finish by the 14th.''
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, on Friday said it was time for Congress to wrap up its work and leave for the year.
``We need to do whatever we're going to do by next Friday, the 14th, and call it a day,'' he said.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthraxscarelist
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posted on
12/08/2001 11:33:15 AM PST
by
GeneD
To: GeneD
Tom Daschle needs to quit worrying about speculation on anthrax and START working on what the President and the American people want--STIMULUS for the economy.
To: GeneD
That make a helluva lotta sense. If your a chemist, your assumed to be military???? What a dAsshole!
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posted on
12/08/2001 11:37:56 AM PST
by
Bommer
To: GeneD
So let me get this straight...
The Liberali mindset is that whoever is sending the anthrax letters is from the United States and is prior military?
Democrats simply dont know when to quit.
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posted on
12/08/2001 11:39:32 AM PST
by
VaBthang4
To: GeneD
Typical "RAT"....anti military....
To: GeneD
Sure he has a military background. Taliban, al Queda, Islamic Jihad.
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posted on
12/08/2001 11:42:42 AM PST
by
angkor
To: GeneD
The problem with this Daschole is that he has completely blown his credibility. Like David Boniers, you can't believe a word out of his mouth.
Hey Daschole, do you really think anyone listens to a word James Carville utters? Welcome to that gutter dwelling stratosphere you wanker! Don't look now, but you're irrelevant.
To: *Anthrax_Scare_List; Alamo-Girl; gumbo
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posted on
12/08/2001 11:54:09 AM PST
by
meridia
To: GeneD
No way U.S. military involved!!!
Better to go 'fishing' in Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, China, Pakistan, Canada, and India.
IMHO.......'go fish' elsewhere.
:-)
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posted on
12/08/2001 11:55:56 AM PST
by
maestro
To: GeneD
This "Senator" is a typical incorrigible, leftist asshole - to cast blame against an organization or people that may stand in his way to gaining absolute power.
If I were guessing who could perpetrate such a cowardly, dastardly, inhumane, murderous deed - I would suspect a freaking Politican.
Semper Fi
To: GeneD
What a bunch of dumbasses.
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posted on
12/08/2001 12:00:11 PM PST
by
OWK
To: GeneD
This is Commie Tommy's backdoor way of implicating the right wing, by implying that someone ex-military familiar with biologicals is now with a militia group conducting 'right-wing terrorist activites.'
In otherwards, same sh**, different day.
To: meridia
Thanks for the heads up!
To: GeneD
oh, man! let's all bookmark this one, so when it turns out to be some al qaeda-linked darling of the libs (who did, after all, make al qaeda's growth possible via their poster boy, bill clinton), we can shove it down daschle's skinny, dwarfen throat!
dep
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posted on
12/08/2001 12:19:37 PM PST
by
dep
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To: GeneD
Typical DemonRat thinking. Somebody who sends anthrax is evil, therefore it has to be from an American who is ex-military.
This sort of thing always happens. Whenever the media talks about Jeffrey Dahmer, they always beat to death the fact that he served in the army. They usually forget to mention that Jeffie GOT BOOTED from the army for being a drunk.
To: GeneD
Daschle...said on Saturday he believes the sender was probably someone with a military background.Well, that leaves the Clintons out!
To: GeneD
Asked if he believes the source was someone with a military background, Daschle said, ``That's correct.'' Daschle has been in frequent contact with investigators."Which is why we democrats, as a party, will continue to do all we can to throw military absentee ballots in th garbage."
To: Free Vulcan
Well, one has to admit that there is an impressive history of recent domestic right wing terrorism: Abortion clinic bombings, the assassination of abortion providers, Oklahoma City, Church bombings in the south, the Atlantic City Olympic games bombing, the anthrax hoax letters sent to abortion clinics ... Isn't Ted Olson in charge of the FBI now? On a high profile case like this, he would be incompetent if he were not providing proper supervision. What has the FBI said to date?
To: abwehr
What does Ted Olson's FBI think?
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