Those Other Attacks

It's become a boilerplate boast: "There have been no attacks on American soil since 9/11." Shunted down the memory hole, I guess, are the anthrax attacks in 2001 that killed five people and cost the economy billions in losses. Remember the interesting choice of targets -- the media and two senior Democratic Senators? Remember those notes (here, and here) that now, with the benefit of five years' perspective, look like a ludicrous attempt to imitate the way someone for whom Arabic was the native language might write English? And remember the easy prewar emphasis on the urgent threat posed by Saddam's "anthrax stockpiles," along with breathless speculation by the usual suspects that Saddam was responsible for the 2001 anthrax mailings?

According to this report, the FBI says the case has gone "so cold" that it may be put in the inactive files. She disagrees, and she's fighting in court.