Washington (AP, February 5) - Investigators are trying to determine if a mysterious "Fallen Angel" who sent two threatening letters containing ricin last fall is responsible for the deadly poison that turned up in the Senate this week.While investigators say they've found "no obvious direct connection" between the Frist letter and the earlier ones, it still appears that's their first line of inquiry. So as in the anthrax scare of just over two years ago, there's every indication that this is an attempted act of domestic, not international, terrorism - and thus not worthy of the kind of fist-pumping, cheerleading, rah-rahing, Bush-loving coverage that the "fair and balanced" news network would otherwise give it.
The earlier typewritten letters addressed to the White House and Transportation Department warned that more ricin would be used unless new federal trucking regulations were scrapped. The change in 60-year-old rules governing how often truck drivers must rest went into effect January 4. ...
The letters, described as nearly identical, claimed that the author owned a tanker truck fleet company and demanded that hours of service rules for drivers remain unchanged, according to the FBI.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
And speaking of WMDs....
This is why the ricin found in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's mail is not getting wall-to-wall coverage on Fox News:
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