UPDATE: Edwards campaign evacuates due to White Powder

This just in, there isn't much else I can add at this point:

JOHN EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON EVACUATION OF HEADQUARTERS

Chapel Hill, North Carolina - John Edwards for President Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince released the following statement today about the evacuation of the campaign’s headquarters.

"We received a letter this afternoon at our Chapel Hill headquarters which was opened by a member of our staff and contained a white powder. The health and safety of our staff and volunteers is obviously our paramount concern, so we contacted the authorities.  The authorities have asked us to evacuate while they run tests on the substance, and we have done so.

"Our staff continues to be connected and working from home and the campaign continues to operate at full speed.  We will pass along more information when we receive it."

UPDATE below the Fold

From CHPD:
At 4pm a staffer opened a legal size letter, with white powder.  They threw it into a plastic mail bin and called CHPD (Chapel Hill Police Department).
They took possession of the plastic bin, called OC Health Department, Regional Hazmat team, FBI, and CH Fire Department.

Hazmat is testing for radiation and chemicals (?).  After that, they will take it to the state Health Lab to test for....ricin, anthrax, etc.

UPDATE2:
It looks like it will be early morning before we know anything.  The tests will take 6 hours AFTER it reaches the State Health Lab.  So, they are still doing the initial radiation tests now, which means we're looking at early morning before everything is clear.

•  I'm sure this is nothing...

  at least I Hope it is nothing.

  by chuckles1 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:54:17 PM PDT

  •  Funny how those terrarists always target Dems

    ...why, its almost like they FEAR Democrats, and have nothing but distain for the GOP, figuring that they are just useless.

    by arthura on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:08:50 PM PDT

    •  asdf

      You beat me to it.

      by wiscmass on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:10:29 PM PDT

      •  First SL, Now RL

        Asshats are everywhere

        by ScrewySquirrel on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:27:17 PM PDT

        •  Not everywhere.

          Just where GOOPers live.

          Nothing like a funny terrorist prank to get the freepers laughing.

          by klw1963 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:04:56 PM PDT

    •  re

      He called out Abu no?

      by cookiesandmilk on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:12:55 PM PDT

      •  Coulter too

        How much you want to bet it's some unhinged fan of the Coultergeist?

        by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:13:50 PM PDT

        •  I bet O'Reilly has a good laff

          Better than even odds that he will do what he did when this happened to Olberman recently- basically call Edwards a scared f*ggot.

          Hope the staff is all okay.  Domestic terrorism is no laughing matter.

          by reef the dog on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:17:27 PM PDT

          •  Yes, this is not funny.

            It still bothers me that the anthrax spreading after 9/11 had never been solved.

            It's up there with not catching Osama, the Katrina fiasco and more recent pump fiasco, torture, and Habeas Corpus.

            by zic on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:25:37 PM PDT

            •  If Al Gore Had Been President

              ... when the 2001 Anthrax Attacks occurred, and had Republican politicians been targeted, you'd see a counter on Faux News...

              '1950 Days and Counting - Gore Fails to Solve Anthrax Mystery.'

              The morons!

              by JekyllnHyde on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:31:58 PM PDT

              •  Except

                Gore would have solved it by now.

                by Warren Terrer on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:40:54 PM PDT

                •  No credit

                  And Fox would have somehow spun that as a bad thing.

                  by GOPhuckYourself on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:49:51 PM PDT

                  •  hey

                    we need to be reaching out to fox, because they have new voters who might listen to us!

                    in case you are wondering, i failed to type that with a straight face.

                    by Blue South on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:50:53 PM PDT

                    •  I still think it was an inside job

                      Army-grade anthrax, only attacking Democrats, and conveniently hitting the National Enquirer/Sun office after they ran the photos of Bush's daughters.

                      And every investigation into it stopped cold.  Hmmm.  Does this sound a mite... familiar?  Can anyone say US Attorney's Office drops investigations under pressure?  I knew you could.

                      The Music Room.

                      by madhaus on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:05:09 PM PDT

                      •  Amen

                        the closer you look at that story, the uglier it gets.

                        by mosesfreeman on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:39:10 PM PDT

                    •  Sounds like you lifted a classic quote...

                      Straight from the DLC's site!

                      by GainesT1958 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:47:50 PM PDT

            •  Failure of Ashcroft and now Abu

              They control our mail.  Coincidence?

              by reef the dog on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:38:39 PM PDT

              •  saw a show a while ago on how mail sorting works

                you know, one of those "how it's made" shows. The machinery took a digitized image of every letter that went through it. For any that the optical scanners couldn't read, it sent an image -- not the actual letter -- to a clerk, who deciphered the poor handwriting off a screen.

                That's worried me ever since. A picture of every single letter passing through.

                Tin foil crunching in my ears.

                by zic on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:41:44 PM PDT

                •  erm

                  isn't it just the outside?  the envelope?

                  by tunesmith on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:54:34 PM PDT

                  •  that's more than sufficient

                    Websearch "traffic analysis" or "social network analysis" and get real scared.

                    by G2geek on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 01:01:00 AM PDT

              •  No coincidence

                Considering how they use the DoJ to attack Democrats I think it's painfully obvious that they didn't make any serious effort to catch someone sending white powder to Democrats. And they won't make a serious effort to solve this case either.

                by Warren Terrer on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:42:48 PM PDT

            •  Not solved?

              It's not ever even mentioned.

              It's like it never happened. For all the freakout over "WMDs," the total disappearance of that entire Anthrax attack down the memory hole is one weird aspect of the last 6 years. Weird and disturbing.

              by BriVT on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:42:31 PM PDT

              •  Not so weird

                The victims were democrats and 'liberals'.

                Osama bin Laden has pretty much disappeared down the memory hole too. Heckuva job, Dubya.

                by Warren Terrer on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:44:32 PM PDT

              •  "We haven't been hit since 9/11"

                How many times have you heard that?

                And every time I hear it, I think, "Well, there was that Anthrax thing..."

                by Malacandra on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:45:35 PM PDT

                •  Well, I count 9/11

                  as Bush responsibility.

                  by Caneel on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:07:28 PM PDT

                •  Hitting the Recommend Button

                  again and again and again!!!

                  It's a win-win for them isn't it.  Nobody hurt means they can keep lying about not getting "hit" (epecially since we all figure it's a domestic terrorist anyway).

                  If a target dies, that's one more critique they don't have to worry about.

                  It sickens me that I've become so sick about those sickos that I would even think such sick thoughts.

                  by Mark Adams on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:11:11 PM PDT

              •  Well, when you end up tracing it...

                to your own bio-weapons labs, it apparently makes the people in charge become less interested in solving the case.

                Do you remember the reports about how it was a specific strain of anthrax which is only known to exist in Iraq, and a few other countries? Then a researcher at a southwestern university (Arizona, I think) did a new type of DNA testing and narrowed it down more specifically to a lab at Ft. Deitrick, MD.

                I've always wondered if this anthrax thing was the first attempt to tie Iraq to 9/11, but they just didn't realize that this new DNA test would prove them wrong.

                by bartman on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:00:54 PM PDT

                •  Yep!

                  Richard Perle was big on the link between Iraq and the anthrax attacks.  It was completely bogus.

                  by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:10:11 PM PDT

                •  I try really hard not to be

                  paranoid and "tinfoil hat" crazy, but your theory makes sense to me.  I'd find it perfectly believable that they knew all along where the anthrax came from, or they found out it came from one of their own.  This kind of thinking does no good, but I can't seem to stop it, given the things that have happened in the last six years.

                  by myrealname on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:12:23 PM PDT

                  •  I know what you mean

                    I don't like to think I buy into conspiracy theories but this is very compelling.  

                    by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:17:09 PM PDT

                    •  it's obviously

                      a wingNUT doing it. (and i mean Unabomber nutty)

                      by sooner on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:50:26 PM PDT

                  •  crimes of opportunity...

                    It doesn't even take a conspiracy, just a well-honed capacity for opportunism.  As follows:

                    One:  Someone does the anthrax attack.  It almost doesn't matter who the guilty party really is, because....  

                    Two:  The Admin uses the attack to support going to war in Iraq.  As long as there is any plausibility to blaming it on Iraq, the story will be promoted for that purpose.  Except...

                    Three:  Eventually the evidence (DNA) points away from Iraq and back to one of our own stockpiles at a highly secure military lab.  Uh-oh, time to drop the investigation and obfuscate for a while, during which time...

                    Four:  Having stirred up the meme that Iraq is hiding WMDs, the Regime gets its permission to do the war, and then...

                    Five:  Conveniently dumps the anthrax episode down the proverbial memory hole, and offers the media a choice tidbit in the form of the prospect of "stunning" war footage as the war begins.  

                    Six:  The public, attention fully occupied by what at first appeared to be a swift move toward victory, forgets all about the anthrax.  

                    Mission Accomplished!

                    by G2geek on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 01:13:19 AM PDT

                •  Once they traced the origin

                  to the lab at Ft. Deitrick, MD the investigation ceased. At least information available to the public regarding the investigation stopped. I wonder who headed up the investigation and who had it stopped.

                  Most likely the same ole figures that pop up every time there is another typical neocon / republican fiasco.

                  by truong son traveler on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:21:26 PM PDT

                •  Anthrax to Dems and the Media.

                  It was like putting a horse's head in their bed.

                  The message was clear.

                  Shut the fuck up and play ball.

                  or else!

                  by shady8 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:22:24 PM PDT

                  •  Delivered by a tall, older

                    gray-haired chain-smoking man.

                    

                    by Bulldawg on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:20:00 PM PDT

                •  Strikes me that it's not by accident...

                  The Anthrax outbreak has never been solved. For awhile, they claimed a professor at, was it, LSU was a "person of interest", but then we never heard about him again, either.

                  Tracing it back to Ft. Deitrick was telling--and the last we really heard about the investigation. Funny how something that killed so many and spread so much fear has dissappeared from the public's radar screen like a stealth aircraft.

                  But then, this Administration has proven it has "vays" of dealing with people who stick their investigative noses in the wrong places. More than just nine sacked U.S. Attorneys come to mind.

                  by GainesT1958 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 09:34:11 PM PDT

                  •  Dr Steven Hatfill was the

                    person of interest. Never went anywhere. Apparently filed libel suit. old story here

                    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

                    by MadMs on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 09:57:32 PM PDT

                    •  yeah they screwed that guy. nt

                      by zedaker on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:30:25 PM PDT

                    •  He won a $10M settlement against Reader's Digest

                      and Vanity Fair for libel, but lost his suit against the NYT.

                      There have been whispers about other "persons of interest", but the case hasn't gone anywhere in a long time. There seems to be no will or interest in solving it.

                      by mosesfreeman on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:46:32 PM PDT

          •  Has this ever happened to O'Lielly?

            The man's got the empathy of the freaking terminator.

            by caseynm on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:06:46 PM PDT

        •  Chad Castagana nt

          .

          by BlueEngineerInOhio on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:21:41 PM PDT

          •  Nice guy

            Where was I when this info came out?  Dang.

            On an old van parked in the driveway of Castagana's parents hillside home, the phrase "Death to all liberals" was inscribed on the van's dirty back window.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/...

            by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:30:55 PM PDT

            •  I think a lot of us were

              still too busy celebrating, judging from the mid-November date given there.

              by BlueEngineerInOhio on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:41:51 PM PDT

    •  I've become convinced

      that the first anthrax attack was done by terrorists, just not Al Quaeda.

      by collegekid318 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:13:29 PM PDT

      •  You think?

        Do tell!  I can't get a handle on it.  Which lab exactly did the strain come from?  I know it originated in an Army lab and then what?

        by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:15:48 PM PDT

        •  Ames, Iowa.

          Webrings have been written on the subject...

          But of course it came from a terrorist, since it was an act of terrorism. If it turns out to be some old white guy who thinks we're going to hell because we let women serve on juries, he's still at terrorist.

          by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:23:09 PM PDT

          •  The collegekid used the plural

            I kind of thought it might be some scientist who went mad for some reason.  

            I read an article about a lab (I don't remember which one) that had that strain and one of the laid-off workers said anyone could've walked out with anything. Security only paid attention to people who were coming in and inventories of hazardous materials was very poor.

            by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:25:47 PM PDT

            •  Yes, that's all apparently true.

              With the added observation that when you read some of this stuff, it's pretty clear the scientists were mad to begin with.

              by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:46:10 PM PDT

              •  Good site!

                Wow...that's a good site.  I'll have to check this out more.

                by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:49:48 PM PDT

          •  I did not think they'd identified

            who did this. links?

            by zic on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:26:53 PM PDT

            •  See my other post.

              It's a bit of Jon Benet thing... or like the Kennedy assassination. Here's one of the sites:

              http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/

              I read 'em when I'm having one of my Weekends of Despair, along with Hatewatch, sites about Warren Jeffs, and Bornagain sites.

              by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:44:10 PM PDT

              •  LMAO first rec list diary I wrote

                was based on a TANG website way before memos were given to Dan Rather.

                Seems like we shouldn't be so suspicious of the tin foil anymore. That's okay, I'm getting gray. Time for another foil.

                by zic on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:47:17 PM PDT

                •  Since you're talking about

                  
                  tin foil hats, I saw a show on TV, I can't remember much about it, but there was a man on it who has some leather helmets with a specially developed plastic liner which is supposed to take the place of the old tin foil hats. Just sayin'.

                  by Skylor on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:58:23 PM PDT

                  •  did you order yours yet? n/t

                    by zic on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 05:32:21 AM PDT

              •  Got one for you, one for a sad, sad day.

                Go take a look at the WaPo 9/11 mem. for the Pentagon. Read the bios. Pay special attention to Navy. FYI, that office included Navy Intelligence.

                by zic on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:51:44 PM PDT

                •  You ever notice how many

                  
                  CIA bigwigs are former Navy Intelligence bigwigs?

                  What's the Navy got that the other armed force intelligence people don't have? Other than an advantage for a CIA job.

                  by Skylor on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 12:48:04 AM PDT

                  •  Navy was primary intelligence gatherer

                    listening to chatter off subs. Other intelligence needed boots on the ground. It's out of the cold war, and boots on the ground were limited; not sure when but I think during Carter's admin. and later after Iran Contra.

                    by zic on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 05:28:22 AM PDT

              •  This should be one of the things Congress...

                ....revists.  How can the feds just let an investigation like this die?

                by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:55:02 PM PDT

          •  What ever happened to....

            labeling this for what it is: a criminal act? I hate lumping everything under the " it's a terrorist act". Lable everything that way and "terrorism" loses it's discriminating meaning.

            by salsaMan on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:55:32 PM PDT

            •  The 'terrorist' label is way overused

              I totally agree with you there.  

              by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:58:15 PM PDT

            •  Well, I wanted to call it a crime

              when nearly 3,000 New Yorkers were murdered in a single day.

              But that turned out not to be a Crime.

              If you don't believe me, check the NYC murder stats for 2001.

              by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:03:15 PM PDT

              •  So the 911 victims aren't listed?

                Good grief.

                by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:05:19 PM PDT

                •  You can't make a war

                  out of a crime.

                  Let alone two wars.

                  For wars, you need an act of terrorism.

                  by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:06:24 PM PDT

                  •  That, and....

                    ...it would mess up Rudy's crime stats for the year.

                    by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:11:36 PM PDT

                    •  We may have won the Cold War but

                      
                      we can't get over going to war and having the reason become a Cold Case. It's a Cold Case War.
                      Everything that has been given as an Al Libi (alibi) for action taken by the Bush Admonsteration has turned into a Cold Case and no one in authority seems to give a shit.

                      Firing US attornies for political reasons? Cold Case.

                      Leaking CIA information? Cold Case

                      Tracking Osama Bin Laden? Cold Case

                      Tracking anthrax terrorism? Cold Case

                      And many, many more Cold Cases. Anyone surprised?

                      by Skylor on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 12:15:55 AM PDT

                      •  And another Cold Case.

                        
                        Does anyone remember that missing 9 billion dollars that was reported by Bunny Greenhouse? Well, Bunny has been dealt with and the missing $9 billion is a Cold Case. Nine fucking billion dollars is missing and no one ever did anything about it. Except for Bunny and Rep Conyers.

                        by Skylor on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 12:38:24 AM PDT

              •  Really?

                I mean, I could see how it would skew the murder statistics for the year, but they WERE murdered.  

                by chuckles1 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:19:23 PM PDT

                •  Hang on, I *will* find this stat.

                  Number of murders in NYC in 2001.
                  It's slippier than a fish in a bucket of jello.

                  by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:34:15 PM PDT

                •  'Kay, here's what I've found, and it was dam'

                  difficult, as internet searches go.

                  In the bad old days of the early 90's, NYC's murder rate was 2,000 a year. "Since 1993, the city has experienced an unprecedented 44 percent drop in overall crime and a 61 percent drop in murder, making New York the safest large city in America."

                  Between 2001 and 2004, the murder rate in NYC
                  fell 12% to a rate of 7 per 100,000. If the NYC pop. is about 8 million (as it has been for decades) then that's roughly 560 murders in 2004 and only a fraction more in 2001.

                  No room there, as you see, for the WTC victims to be counted as murdered.

                  by SensibleShoes on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:45:23 PM PDT

                  •  ill bet it

                    doesnt count all the people with health problems that we have only begun to find out about either.

                    Thanks for the info.

                    by Blue South on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:47:34 PM PDT

        •  Right-wing US terrorists

          with ties to the military?

          This is probably a hoax by a wing-nut.....but it is very creepy that the anthrax cases were never solved. They were timed so well with the rush to approve the Patriot Act and Bush administration attacks on the Constitution. Correlation is not causation, but the lack of resolution of such a high-profile case breeds suspicion.

          by FishOutofWater on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:29:07 PM PDT

          •  It was the labs the military lab gave it to...

            I mean, it could've been the military lab, I guess?  I don't know.  But then the feds went digging at all these other places that the military lab sent the strain to, first saying it could be a lot of other labs, then saying it could only be a few.  It's so confusing.

            by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:34:23 PM PDT

            •  Let me clarify this....

              The strain is called "Ames", named mistaken for a town in Ames, Iowa.  It really came from a cow that died from the strain in Texas. I remember correctly a US Army bioresearch lab had it.  They let other research labs borrow bits of the strain (it's way deadly).  There was all this confusion over whether it was a few labs that might have it or a lot of other facilities.

              One lab that had used the strain apparently was a security nightmare.  A laid-off worker said he could've walked out of there with anything when he left (he had packed his personal items in a box that nobody looked at) because security was more concerned about who was going in than what and who was going out.  And their inventory of hazardous bio materials was hopelessly messed up.

              And then I don't know any more...  It's all a confusing mess of information, disinformation,...?

              by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:48:39 PM PDT

              •  Well that was a mess

                I hope somebody can make sense of it.  Eesh.

                by Buckeye BattleCry on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:50:34 PM PDT

              •  The fact is though

                that a finite number of people had access to the stuff. If you could question all of those (likely a short list), you could probably drastically reduce that list to just a few people.

                This really shouldn't be a hard thing to do.

                by mosesfreeman on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:52:06 PM PDT

          •  I don't really think there

            were any real ties to the military (I'm guessing that a disgruntled lab worker/maybe scientist who took something from a lab is as close as it gets). And "convinced" is a rather strong word (you caught me with my tin foil hat on, sorry!). It's just a sort of nagging feeling.
            Of course, no one took credit, so that would tend to point to a person acting alone.

            by collegekid318 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:55:58 PM PDT

    •  It's not that they FEAR DEMOCRATS, it's that they

      ARE REPUBLICANS.

      by Andy Lewis on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:32:25 PM PDT

    •  And journalists.

      Interesting.

      by Scout Finch on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:55:18 PM PDT

  •  Probably

    Just another Ann Coulter joke.

    by fabooj on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:28:38 PM PDT

    •  That kind of "joke"

      can get the joker life in prison. Unless of course the perp is a Republican, and the DOJ has been politicized.

      Fuck Gonzales.

      by mosesfreeman on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 11:54:08 PM PDT

  •  It means

    Edwards is running a good campaign. He's got the wingnuts scared.

    by Warren Terrer on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:37:40 PM PDT

  •  For sure, you don't have a handle for bad news.

    by kck on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 07:58:16 PM PDT

  •  Just somthing Bush hasn't been able to stop.

    by drmah on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 08:07:39 PM PDT

  •  A souvenier from Bush from Columbia.

    "Generosity, Ethics, Patience, Effort, Concentration, and Wisdom"

    by Dood Abides on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 09:28:32 PM PDT

•  I'm sure it was nothing...

  ignore the men with powdered hands behind the curtain.

  by Diaries on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:54:24 PM PDT

  •  I'm sure too...

    at least I really hope so.

    by chuckles1 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:55:51 PM PDT

•  Do you have a link to your blockquoted

  material?

  I hope that this is another hoax and not real.

  by inclusiveheart on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:56:24 PM PDT

  •  Email.

    I'll let you know when it pops up.

    by chuckles1 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:59:14 PM PDT

  •  Here is a local story.

    http://www.newsobserver.com/...

    by chuckles1 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:00:02 PM PDT

    •  Thanks - I went to their website and

      there was nothing in the press releases.  Isn't that funny that they'd send an email and fail to post it with the rest of their releases.

      I really hope they are okay.

      by inclusiveheart on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:05:54 PM PDT

      •  They are working from home...

        and I'm sure they are frantic.  There is business to attend to, and the have to be wondering what if.

        This really, really sucks.

        by chuckles1 on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:15:51 PM PDT

        •  It is pretty much outrageous. n/t

          by inclusiveheart on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:20:08 PM PDT

•  Another

  distraction perhaps?  

  by mango on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:58:10 PM PDT

•  some reports hitting the wires

  http://www.sfgate.com/...

  http://www.newsobserver.com/...

  I hope

  • It's a prank
  • They catch bastards or bastardesses who perpetrated this

  by shpilk on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:59:08 PM PDT

  •  AP

    http://dwb.newsobserver.com/...

    by shpilk on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:00:39 PM PDT

  •  We'll see if we can get anyone to prosecute