Once again: Our Priceless Media

Well, yesterday we found out that the main suspect in the anthrax investigation is now dead. He reportedly died from suicide. One has to wonder why they just didn't make him an 'enemy combatant' and lock him up...... but my guess is that treatment is just for brown people, and this guy was white.

But here is what we know: the anthrax came from Ft. Detrick, right here in the USA. It was weaponized anthrax.

We know the letters were sent to people in the media and to Democratic Senators (the ones who could have stopped the US Patriot act, I have been told). We know the accompanying letters tried really hard to make a connection between the anthrax and Islamic terrorists and 9/11.

We know that five Americans died on US soil from this anthrax.

And here is something else we know, thanks to Glenn Greenwald:

During the last week of October, 2001, ABC News, led by Brian Ross, continuously trumpeted the claim as their top news story that government tests conducted on the anthrax -- tests conducted at Ft. Detrick -- revealed that the anthrax sent to Daschele contained the chemical additive known as bentonite. ABC News, including Peter Jennings, repeatedly claimed that the presence of bentonite in the anthrax was compelling evidence that Iraq was responsible for the attacks, since -- as ABC variously claimed -- bentonite "is a trademark of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program" and "only one country, Iraq, has used bentonite to produce biological weapons."

ABC News' claim -- which they said came at first from "three well-placed but separate sources," followed by "four well-placed and separate sources" -- was completely false from the beginning. There never was any bentonite detected in the anthrax (a fact ABC News acknowledged for the first time in 2007 only as a result of my badgering them about this issue). It's critical to note that it isn't the case that preliminary tests really did detect bentonite and then subsequent tests found there was none. No tests ever found or even suggested the presence of bentonite. The claim was just concocted from the start. It just never happened.

That means that ABC News' "four well-placed and separate sources" fed them information that was completely false -- false information that created a very significant link in the public mind between the anthrax attacks and Saddam Hussein. And look where -- according to Brian Ross' report on October 28, 2001 -- these tests were conducted:

And despite continued White House denials, four well-placed and separate sources have told ABC News that initial tests on the anthrax by the US Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, have detected trace amounts of the chemical additives bentonite and silica.

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I wanted to leave some space after that - to emphasize it.

We know that the anthrax came from Ft. Detrick, as did letters (false statements, it turns out) claiming that the anthrax came from Iraq. Those false letters promoting war with Iraq, like the anthrax, came from Ft. Detrick. That means that people working at Ft. Detrick were really working to promote war on Iraq, and threaten the US Congressional Democrats along the way. And they managed to kill off five Americans on US soil in 2001 to further their aims.

That means they are murderers.

Now, what is the likelihood that our priceless, priceless corporate media will actually cover this story and report on it? (I am not including McClatchy in "corporate media" since they actually are journalists.) My guess is slim to none. I don't know if it is because they are lazy, or just bed-wetters who cannot handle some fear.

ABC News is not protecting their "sources" here. They are protecting MURDERERS. They, of course, will play the WE'ZZ BEEZ STOOPID card, yet again, if anyone calls them on it.

Now, don't go and actually call the corporate media 'journalists' stupid - they will be offended.

Of course, they are not stupid.