GAO Statement:"Diffuse Security Threats: Information on U.S. Domestic Anthrax Attacks"

>>> At the request of the Congressional joint intelligence committee that looked at 9/11, the General Accounting Office prepared a statement on the anthrax mailings, which may or may not have had anything to do with the Sept 11 attacks. (The committee concluded that the two events were unrelated.) This publication was created in December 2002 but was not publicly released until the committee's report came out in late July 2003. It was included in the appendix to the voluminous report and was almost entirely overlooked by the media.

The dire warning on the cover of the publication warns that public release of its contents "could be detrimental to the government" and that after it has been read, it should be destroyed. How very cloak and dagger. And how interesting that the GAO allowed the report to be published in its entirety, with absolutely no redactions. If the knowledge contained herein could collapse the government and must be detroyed, then why the heck has it been deemed fit for public consumption now? My guess: It's another ridiculous example of overzealous bureaucrats who want to classify and restrict every bit of information down to the President's shoe size.