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By Bill Altreuter

As Teresa Nielsen Hayden put it, "I hate it when the government makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist." Even so, I will confess that I have long harbored the notion that the anthrax letters were a Bush Administration scheme to provoke a war against Iraq-- and then the planes hit. By that time the anthrax plan was in motion, so they went with it. The targets were journalists and Democrats, and the WMD pretext was one that they obviously had in mind. I reckoned from the day that the son of a bitch was sworn in that we'd see an attack on Baghdad. Hell, Saddam tried to kill his daddy, you know. The problem with a notion like that is that it gets stuck in your mind like a caraway seed between your teeth. Maybe Bruce Ivins really was batshit crazy. Maybe that's a set-up too, designed to wrap up the case. Another law enforcement triumph from the people who actually make John Ashcroft look good. Or maybe they had a batshit crazy anthrax scientist (how does that even happen?) and they manipulated him into it. Wouldn't have been hard.

See, the thing is that I think these people are pretty much capable of anything. No lie is too big, or incredible, and no breach of law gives them any hesitation. Once you've subverted the Constitution, what's left? International law? They don't even believe it exists.

And now I have to lie down with a cold compress.

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on August 09, 2008 (boomark / email).