You are speaking, of course, of Robert Smith, a journalist who wasn't even an American (he was British). This was*all* supposedly "random", according to the FBI, but when the *first* victim had a "connection" to the 9-11 terrorists it's difficult to maintain that charade.
Look at the great lengths that the press went through to try and convince the public that Mr. Smith contracted his anthrax infection by "drinking from a rural stream in North Carolina", and other such nonsense.
It was only when it could no longer be denied tat his infection was a deliberate act (the stuff had beeen *mailed* to him, by name, at his workplace, for crying out loud). Then others started falling ill, some of them dying, so they had to change the paradigm, once again.
What was never in the cards, though, for the public, was the truth. Why? Because there were "plans" afoot, and keeping the knowledge of a deliberate bio-attack from a hostile foreign government secret was integral to those plans. Public knowledge of such an attack, with Saddam Hussein's involvement, would derail those plans, thus, the charade.
Perhaps it was truly necessary, at that time, perhaps not, but now is time for the truth to be told...
the infowarrior
1. Infowarrior, minor note: you mean Robert Stevens. Robert Smith is my barber.
Dr. Rebel, the public is far more clueless than the FBI. We would want the FBI to leave no stone unturned and are not in a position to judge them so harshly. If we put them in a position of being damned if they do and damned if they don’t, we will undermine their effectiveness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-NGKm4xxC4
A copy of the that letter and envelope doesn't exist, but there's no evidence that it was mailed to him (or anyone else) by name; there was testimony that a letter with powder was opened by a clerk and thrown in the trash. Stevens was contaminated by vacuuming spreading the dust around.