there's a really interesting piece in salon in the wake of the suicide of the apparent anthrax correspondent, specifically on the attempt to frame saddam in the anthrax letters of late 2001. the sources for the stories, government anthrax scientists, may have been the perps. on the other hand, circulating false rumors connecting the spores to saddam sure sounds like an operation conducted by david addington. indeed, offhand mailing anthrax spores to patrick leahy - a procedure with the possible two-birds effect of killing patrick leahy and providing a casus belli - sounds like an operation conducted by david addington. as does the "suicide" of the scientist on the eve of his arrest. however, not all beautiful conspiracy theories are true, sadly.