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02/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Anybody surprised?"
Anybody surprised?
The White House was feeling heat over the Plame affair, Republicans were catching shit for hacking into Democrats' computers, and presto! - a ricin attack on the Majority Leader!
Welp, now it seems that there may not have been a ricin attack at all. I, for one, am shocked. Suuuuuuuure, I am.
There is a new theory emerging about the ricin scare two weeks ago.NBC News has learned investigators are looking into the possibility that there never was any ricin attack in the first place.
A white powder, previously believed to be ricin, was discovered on a machine used to open envelopes in the Dirksen Senate office building. Dirksen and two other buildings were closed for several days.
There are several reasons for the new theory. Investigators haven't been able to determine an apparent source of the ricin, and the suspicous substances was found in very small amounts.
Since ricin comes from the castor bean, and some nontoxic parts of the plant are used to make paper, it might be possible that the tests found traces of the plant, but not ricin.
Investigators said there are no solid leads and this is just one of several theories.
Hey, I've got a theory - how about Republicans know they can buy time and distract a lot of Americans by faking goddam terror attacks?
Replies: 6 people speak up
Or do you think there's any connection with the office it was 'found' in...during the same week that computers were being confiscated over 'Memogate'.
Posted by mcf @ 02/22/2004 05:40 PM NY
Another Rove tactic? Like the 'bug' found in an office that he had planted himself?
Someone wrote in to www.allhatnocattle.net asking for confirmation about a story they had heard, that Rove had planted Ricin in a chemistry lab while in school (Utah)to avoid taking a test he wasn't ready for...
Posted by Allison @ 02/22/2004 06:01 PM NY
Keep close watch on Congress as the shell game continues.
Check this: http://kevxml2adsl.verizon.net/_1_9ZHTO10439JPZF__vzn.dsl/apnws/story.htm?kcfg=apart&sin=D80SPV2G0&qcat=usnews&ran=18706&passqi=&feed=ap&top=1
Posted by Demeur @ 02/23/2004 03:39 AM NY
I am going to find the link on this, so give me time, but the amount of ricin was so small that there wasn't enough to chemically test that it was in fact ricin. Everything u hear about it being ricin is based on microscope examination. The amount was described as being so small as to not even qualify as "trace" amounts.
Posted by djdissent @ 02/23/2004 10:38 PM NY
Well they couldn't just go and use American made anthrax again now could they? That's already been done. What better substance than one almost anyone could make instead of one that has tags that can be traced back to our own WMD stockpiles.
Posted by IXLNXS @ 02/24/2004 02:23 PM NY
Just in case everybody wasn't cynical ENOUGH about expecting our own government to plan an "October Surprise," Dick "Cognitive Dissonance" Morris over at Faux News is practically BEGGING Bush to pull it off early to improve his poll standings. Of course this is for the Good Moral Purpose of bringing us to our senses by realizing the War on Terra (in which Dubya has had TWO wonderful successes after all) is far more important than the fact that we have no jobs or health insurance.
Posted by Xan @ 02/24/2004 10:37 PM NY
