Were any Republicans targeted in the anthrax attacks?

[Sub Atomic]

I can't seem to remember any.

[BuyingThyme]

1. Tom Brokaw.

[PA Democrat]

11. But right wingers think Brokaw is a liberal. Everyone except FOX

bubble heads are "liberal."

[Kingofalldems]

2. No, but they solved it so don't ever think about it again.

[gratuitous]

3. Yeah, it was that guy . . . you know

The one that they, uh, thought . . .

Well, that's the end of that! We're all safe again, thanks to George W. Bush.

[Sub Atomic]

4. Link?

I don't remember anything about catching who did it other than Hatfield (sp?) was a suspect and he was later exonerated.

[BuyingThyme]

5. That's sarcasm.

But they did catch a dead guy and close the case.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Two Dems and News Media outlets.

"The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The primary suspect was not publicly identified until 2008.

In mid-2008, the FBI narrowed its focus to Bruce Edwards Ivins, a scientist who worked at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.

Ivins was told of the impending prosecution and on July 27 committed suicide, by an overdose of acetaminophen.<1>
On August 6, 2008, federal prosecutors declared Ivins to be the sole culprit of the crime.<2> Two days later, Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Rush Holt called for hearings into the DOJ and FBI's handling of the investigation.<3>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

[Sub Atomic]

7. Thank you.

I don't remember hearing anything at all about this guy. Thanks.

[NYC_SKP]

8. Offed himself with acetaminophen... Tylenol???

Ya learn something new every day!

:toast:

[Sub Atomic]

9. I just Googled it.

Apparently you can OD on 10 mg's of acetaminophen.

Who knew?

:toast:

[Kingofalldems]

10. Special Counsel needed on this and also "The Family"