2001 September 22. Tom Ridge is named Director of the newly created Homeland Security and becomes in charge of politically motivated terror alerts.
2001 September-October. Real and fake anthrax attacks occur. A sham investigation follows with the FBI eventually accusing government scientist Bruce Ivins on little to no evidence, resulting in Ivins' alleged suicide.
2001 Throughout the first three weeks of October the major media use the word "unthinkable" repetitively, echoing its association with nuclear war, just as the World Trade Center site is similarly referred to as "ground zero," another nuclear term. A phony "anthrax" letter containing a harmless white powder, postmarked in St. Petersburg, Florida, on September 20, is sent to Tom Brokaw of NBC. The letter, not made public until October 22 after the media's repeated use of the word "unthinkable," begins: "The Unthinkabel" Sample Of How It Will Look. Judith Miller of the New York Times receives an anthrax threat letter also sent from St. Petersburg.
2001 October 7. The U.S.A attacks Afghanistan.
2001 mid-October The two key U.S. Senators who are resisting a ram-through of the Patriot Act, Thomas Daschle and Patrick Leahy, receive letters with anthrax.
2001 October 27. The Patriot Act is passed.
2001 December 4. George W. Bush says when he was outside the classroom in Florida on September 11th he "had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on." Problem: No one saw the first plane hit the North Tower since it wasn't televised live. Much later a tape someone had made was shown on television.
2002 October 2. At the Cincinnati Museum Center President Bush gives a speech linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11th attacks and says that "we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." He urges the disarming of Iraq.
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