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SENATE CLOSED - RICIN CONFIRMED

MSNBC - Tests confirm ricin in Senate mailroom

Tests have confirmed that a white powder found in a mailroom in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s office is the deadly poison ricin, the Tennessee Republican announced Tuesday on the Senate floor. Three Senate office buildings remained closed as other mail was removed for testing.

It’s rather amazing that, with all the precautions that are being taken with congressional mail, that this stuff is still getting through.

Update (1408) Alex Knapp has some interesting conjecture on this.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.

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What are you suggesting? An inside job? Hmmmmmm.

Posted by phil massey | February 3, 2004 | 11:03 am | Permalink
 

What is to stop it?

Posted by Paul | February 3, 2004 | 11:37 am | Permalink
 

Well, they never caught anyone for the anthrax mail, and that was ages ago. Paul's right - even with all the various bomb-, drug-, and poison-detecting gear the USPS (and the airports that move the mail) has been buying, it's frighteningly easy to find something dangerous they don't scan for.

There are things we can't be protected from.

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Posted by legion | February 3, 2004 | 12:07 pm | Permalink
 

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