The Anthrax Attacks and the Assault on Civil Liberties

CounterPunch by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug. 5, 2008 (Opinion)

The Bush Regime stands against against the truth. That is why it pretends to have the power to prevent executive branch officials wanted for questioning by Congress from appearing before the people's representatives. Nothing could make clearer the contempt that the Bush Regime has for the American people and their elected representatives than its arrogant claim that it is unanswerable to them.

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 by Denise Clendening - Oct. 1, 2008

Rousing condemnation of the Bush administration by the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration known as the "Father of Reaganomics.” Roberts points out how Bush has used the politics of fear to control Americans. He points out that the government blamed the anthrax that was actually sent from a military lab on Iraq and fed misinformation to ABC News. Even if Ivins is guilty why did the government indicate to ABC that the anthrax came from Iraq? The opinion is one sided but I could not find anything contradictory to the investigations that have been conducted by Greenwald and other investigative journalists who are closely following the story.

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