IP: . RE: six months since the anthrax attacks....

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Turner, Jim" <Jim.Turner () mail house gov>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:54:54 
To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: RE: six months since the anthrax attacks....

Dave,

     When I think back over the last six months, the biggest change the
anthrax attack has brought about in the Congress is that it has forced us to
take technology more seriously.  Even today, the average piece of mail we
get is two or three months old.  I have had just one or two pieces of first
class mail arrive that were sent in March and none from April.  This in turn
means that e-mail traffic, fax, and phone are the ways we communicate.  All
Members and key staff on the House side have been given Blackberries tied
into the House e-mail system and I think most staff at least know how to use
them.  This in turn is switching us to electronic rather than paper filing.
If we still had the fastest mail service anywhere, none of this would have
happened.

Jim Turner

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-----Original Message-----
From: tim finin <finin () cs umbc edu>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 14:18:00 
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: six months since the anthrax attacks....

It's been about six months since someone
sent anthrax laden letters through the mail.  
I continue to find it disturbing that (1)
most of the evidence points to a domestic 
perpetrator who had access to and used US
military developed bioweapon technology and
(2) the FBI has apparently been unable to
make much headway in discovering who did it.
Here are some recent stories.

 USNews, Nation & World 4/15/02 
 Many leads, many dead ends 
 Frustration inside the FBI's anthrax investigation: a so-far perfect crime
 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020415/usnews/15anthrax.htm

 Newsweek, April 15, 2002
 A Sophisticated Strain of Anthrax
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/735231.asp#investigations

 The Dallas Morning News, 04/01/2002  
 Anthrax whodunit may have political subplot
 
http://www.dallasnews.com/health/columnists/tsiegfried/stories/040102dnlivto
mcol.20d69.html

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