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...notion that you can’t get anthrax spores or nuclear missiles through any other path than Canada is just wrong,” Bunn said...
This August, just when I began to think the U.S. Postal Service had stopped menacing Americans—no one had received anthrax-laced mail in months, and I hadn’t had to worry about college rejection letters for more than a year—our mailwoman deposited an envelope in our mailbox that shattered my complacency...
...cable TV; watches Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel; was in the Trenton, N.J., area on Sept. 17 and Oct. 8, 2001; and may have traveled last year to Indianapolis, Ind. (from where a threatening letter to O'Reilly was mailed, its handwriting resembling that on the anthrax-tainted letters). You won't read anything like that on the FBI website. On the other hand, Lake isn't bound by the constraints that keep the FBI from broadcasting even informed speculation; that's part of what makes his work so interesting...
Lake remains undaunted. FBI agents come and go. In fact, a key member of the FBI's Washington anthrax team--Arthur Eberhart, special agent in charge--retired last summer. But Lake soldiers on. First thing each morning he's back at his computer scouring the Internet for fresh leads. He vows not to quit until the mystery is solved. And then, maybe, he will get back to his screenplay. --With reporting by Andrea Dorfman/New York and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...midterm congressional elections alone cannot explain the intensity of the zingers being fired across party lines [NATION, Oct. 7]. Frustration is also a factor. Osama bin Laden is nowhere to be found, the anthrax letters remain a mystery, the Dow Jones average sags below 8000, and no one understands how to react to the color-coded terror alerts. Now we're told there is an urgent need to take military action against Iraq and that anyone who questions this is un-American. Frustrating? You bet! SCOTT KOEHNK Key Biscayne...