cover up

The Anthrax attacks always bothered me. There always seemed more to it than we knew and yet the government always seemed reluctant to get to the truth. No, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but what is one to think when there is a case this strange and absurd?

To review: Bruce E. Ivins, the very scientist who was being used by the government to analyze the anthrax laden powder, turned out to be the number one suspect in the anthrax terror plot. Bruce Ivins committed suicide last week, reportedly overdosing with Tylenol with Codeine. It is not easy to overdose on Tylenol with Codeine. In fact, the codeine probably was incidental. Tylenol itself will destroy your liver if you take a large overdose. Is this what he did? If so, he would have died slowly and in agony. I don't see him choosing that way out.

Why has it taken so long to focus in on Ivins? Why did the government spend so much time investigating Steven Hatfill, the man they hounded as "Dr. Anthrax" who turned out so obviously innocent that the government had to pay out $5.82 million in a legal settlement, an almost unheard of development.

Mark Foley, Republican Congressman, solicits sex from a minor. And the Republican leadership did nothing. And now we find they are lying through their teeth about it.

Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert and Tom Reynolds all claimed they had known nothing about Foley's sleaze. They were innocent as could be. Then we learn from one of Reynold's aides that Reynolds had known months before they had admitted they had known, months before the news broke. They knew for months and did nothing to report Foley's illegal and immoral behavior.

Now we learn the lies and cover-ups are even worse than we thought. We now learn that Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., confronted Foley about his Internet communications with teenagers as early as 2000. That means Foley has been a sitting Republican Congressman for SIX YEARS after the Republican party KNEW he was soliciting sex from minors. From Salon.com:

October 09,2006 | WASHINGTON -- A Republican member of Congress confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his Internet communications with teenagers as early as 2000, according to a newspaper report.

The report in the Washington Post pushes back by at least five years the date when a member of Congress acknowledges learning of the Florida Republican's questionable behavior toward pages.

It came as the Republican leadership attempted to present a united front on the congressional page scandal that has rocked the GOP a month before midterm elections and put House Speaker Dennis Hastert on shaky ground.