The Carpetbagger Report: "Perhaps the single most common refrain from the White House and the president's allies is that there have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. That's incorrect — about a month after 9/11, someone sent weaponized anthrax to two Democratic senators and several news outlets. Five Americans were killed and 17 more suffered serious illnesses.
For reasons that I've never been able to explain, the incident — I suppose one should call it an 'attack' — is hardly ever mentioned. No one knows where the anthrax came from, who sent it, or why. It was a horrifying incident, immediately on the heels of another horrifying incident, but five years later, it's almost as if the episode never happened.
One woman in Florida who was widowed by the attack is still waiting for some answers, and she's willing to go to court to get them.
Maureen Stevens says the federal government probably knows who killed her husband.
She believes they're not telling because that might reveal things the government doesn't want revealed.
Nearly five years after Bob Stevens' death, the first in the anthrax attacks that terrified a nation, 'I want to know what happened,' his widow, who's sued the government, said Wednesday from her lawyer's office. 'I want to go into court and find out what happened. . ."
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