The Anthrax Threat I 3. Collateral Damage

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Congress scrambles to draw a connection between the anthrax attacks and enemies overseas. Americans start pointing fingers, and the FBI chases false leads. From Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Season 4 of Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts and @campside_media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to cover up the anthrax threat.
0:02.6	Before you dive in, if you want to listen to the whole story uninterrupted, you can.
0:06.7	Unlocked the entire season ad free right now with a subscription to the binge.
0:10.7	That's all episodes all at once.
0:13.0	Unlock you're listening now by clicking subscribe at the top of the cover-up show page on
0:17.0	Apple Podcasts or visit get the Binge.com to get access wherever you get your
0:21.3	podcasts. Campside Media.
0:27.0	The bench. Once the case became the FBI's top priority.
0:43.9	But as far as hard evidence, there wasn't much to go off.
0:47.2	A male crime is pretty difficult to investigate.
0:50.1	Envelopes are hard to trace before they enter the mail system, and unless you put your name on them, they're basically anonymous.
0:56.3	But there was one clue staring everyone in the face.
1:00.1	It was written on the letters themselves.
1:03.0	Death to Israel.
1:04.0	Death to America.
1:06.0	Allah is great.
1:08.0	It was a tempting theory to think that the same terrorists responsible for 9-11
1:12.0	had also sent the anthrax letters.
1:14.4	But there wasn't much evidence to actually back that up.
1:18.1	America had just sent troops to Afghanistan to fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. But policy makers already had their eyes set on another long-time enemy.
1:26.0	The second phase is Iraq.
1:28.0	There is some indication.
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