John Judis over at TNR - among a growing chorus of others (good) - thinks we need a congressional investigation of how and why the anthrax letters ever got linked with Iraq in the first place:

I don’t who they were; I also don’t believe that the CIA itself was officially engaged in spreading rumors of this kind–most of CIA officialdom was very skeptical of the invasion–but I think it is possible that there was a network people who were promoting a theory about anthrax that helped make the case for war. They may have been unwittingly spreading mis-information that emanated from the perpetrator. Or they may have been winging it irresponsibly. It’s not clear, but I join those who believe that some kind of congressional investigation is in order. There are too many echoes of Niger and uranium.

These years - the Bush years - are going to be remembered specifically for this kind of bullsh*t. Someone lied - and people did indeed die.

Time to find out who someone was.