A must-read. Glenn reminds me that it was the anthrax attacks that took the post-9/11 sense of threat to a whole new level - and moved the Iraq invasion forward as a possible response. That we now think the threat was actually a domestic source with no connection with Islamism is a critical piece of historical adjustment. The case is not definitively made, of course. But it's very striking.
The central question of the time - how much danger are we actually in? - becomes harder and harder to discern. With torture as the Bush administration's core weapon in the war on terror, we will now probably never know anything for sure.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/greenwald-on-anthrax/213384/
