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Fellow Regnery author, friend, and patriot Marc Thiessen’s new book launches today. Courting Disaster is a must-must-read that gives you an inside, in-depth look at the successful CIA interrogations program under the Bush administration and the reckless subversion of our security by the current administration and its jihadi-abetting bedfellows:

Thiessen will be on Hannity on Fox [...]

Alert.

The Los Angeles Times broke the story this morning of Bruce Ivins, who worked at Fort Detrick for 18 years and had been informed of an FBI investigation and impending DOJ prosecution against him in the still-unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks. He committed suicide Tuesday just as the feds were closing in:
Ivins, whose name had not [...]

Collateral damage.

“The media has to be responsible.”

“Not a scintilla of evidence.”

Gettin’ ready for the Judgment Day.

Interesting development in a civil suit that should be getting more attention:
Five reporters must reveal their government sources for stories they wrote about Steven J. Hatfill and investigators’ suspicions that the former Army scientist was behind the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The decision from U.S. District Judge Reggie B. [...]

I don’t like to mud wrestle, but sometimes the slime-flingers need to be held accountable. All week, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and his left-wing vassals have tried to blame female conservative commentators for one nutball’s fake anthrax letter attacks. Reportedly, the suspect was a Free Republic.com member whose pseudonymous profile noted that he “worshipped” Ann [...]

So, this is the big NYTimes story that was being hyped tonight: “U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide:”
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who [...]

Have you forgotten? Five years ago today, someone–still unknown–sent letters laced with anthrax to the NYPost and NBC News. Two more letters, postmarked October 9, 2001, were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Pat Leahy with even more refined (”weaponized”) anthrax:

The CDC mapped the mail flow of anthrax letters, which included several more inferred from [...]

***updated…liveblogging***
Ahmadinejad threatens President Bush, via Drudge.
Buzz in Washington as the White House readies for a Bush speech in the next hour. Networks being asked to break in for live statement. “Significant news” expected between 1:30pm – 1:45pm Eastern.
Hot Air will have it covered.
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Here we go. Not Iran-related. Speaking on value of intelligence-gathering from suspected terrorist [...]

Via Fox News/AP:
A New York City man has been hospitalized after inhaling anthrax, but officials believe it was accidental and not related to terrorism.
The man, a doctor, traveled recently to the west coast of Africa and became ill shortly after his return, said a federal law enforcement official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition [...]

Craig Henry at Lead and Gold has some tough words for the media and its double standards.

You’ve no doubt read about the reported detection of anthrax in two Pentagon mailrooms yesterday.
There’s lots of activity going on in D.C. this morning and conflicting/unconfirmed info:
As testing continued Tuesday, President Bush was being regularly updated on the situation, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
“The initial testing came back positive. There was some additional [...]

Shortly after I posted this two weeks ago, Slate issued the following correction:
Correction, 10/28: The authors originally stated that there has been no domestic terror conviction since 9/11. This was an overstatement, since there have been some convictions under a questionable new law prohibiting Americans from offering “material support” to foreign based terrorists. However, there [...]

In August, the Council on American Islamic Relations demanded that law enforcement officials in McAllen, Texas, investigate an intentionally-set fire at a Muslim store as a possible hate crime. As CAIR noted in one of its endless press release decrying Islamophobia in America:
“The fire followed two separate incidents in which unknown parties painted the [...]

For those who are interested, I have uploaded a follow-up response to professors Eric Muller and Greg Robinson, two principal critics of my new book. You can read the whole thing here. Part I of my response to Muller and Robinson, posted a few weeks ago, is here.
I appreciate the extensive effort that these [...]

Sympathetic stories about photo-taking illegal immigrants seem to be the order of the day.
The New York Times gives us the sad story of Purna Raj Bajracharya of Nepal. Shortly after September 11, Bajracharya was seen videotaping a building that contained an FBI office. He was detained for three months in New York City, then deported. [...]