At the Labor Department, where incoming mail has been disrupted for 10 days, dozens of enforcement cases are jeopardized because the timing on legal deadlines is set when a litigant mails a document.
As anthrax exposures continue and the specter of smallpox has loomed on the horizon, many officials have begun discussing widespread vaccination against the two diseases in an effort to reduce public concern about terrorist threats.
From a distinct writing style for the number “1” to a letter “S” that resembles the number “5,” notes to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post are providing investigators with potentially important clues to whoever sent deadly anthrax through the mail.
The anthrax spores delivered to a Senate office appear to be concentrated, pure and processed to a minute size that would make them a formidable weapon, government officials said Wednesday, suggesting that the biological attack required sophisticated expertise.
The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington have left cities and small towns scrambling to prepare for what U.S. officials say could be the next round of danger: biological or chemical attacks that most rescue workers are ill-equipped to handle.
