Warned that there could be more suspicious packages out there. and now we re learning that yet a second one is now being examined, addressed to maxine waters. the one that came through the maryland facility earlier today is being examined currently by the fbi to see if it is connected to the other five packages found in new york, d.c., and florida. jake? pamela brown, thanks so much. congressman barton, let me ask you, you and i are both old enough to remember lots of political violence in this town. there was the gunman that walkeded into the u.s. capitol and killed two capitol hill police officers. there was the anthrax tried to get into tom delay s office. right. there was the anthrax attack. does this period of our history right now feel worse, feel more dangerous for politicians than previous periods where there was violence? i think it is more dangerous because of the pervasive nature
Analyst and senior fellow at the heritage foundation. you can talk about what it s like to protect high profile people. they do a little different way that they roll. the mail center that was collecting mail for residents, that s different, but the actual people, what is that like and how does that change for the individuals we know about? this is a good illustration of how things have changed since 9/11. the response we have is built on not just the terror attack in new york but the anthrax attack after that. with high profile officials, the screening of mail is much more common and when i look at this from what we know, these look like suspicious packages so these are exactly the kind of things that any trained screener, any person with a security background would check
Hit by an anthrax attack, copies of the report were supposed to be locked up or shredded. instead, a cnn employee discovered those documents. joining us with more, drew griffin. it just leaves you scratching your head, drew. i think we were as surprised as the department of homeland security was, a cnn employee found these, erica, in the seatback pocket of a commercial airplane, 78 pages of this stuff, documents that contain the details of preparations in the event of a biological attack during last night s super bowl. they were based on two dhs exercises, that simulated an anthrax attack, along with listing what worked well and many things that worked well, it talked about shortcomings that exposed during the training exercises. areas for improvement, including confusion among health agencies about alerts, differences of opinion determining how many persons would potentially be exposed, and this is the kicker, all labeled for official use only, which means they should be
Be what would be deployed. could anthrax be deployed and could it work and kill a lot of people? yes, the soviet union did have warheads designed for biological weapons long-range missiles like the ss-18, but it s really not necessary. you could deliver an anthrax attack in miami or new york covertly and strategic impact and kill tens of thousands of people. reporter: it s impossible to determine because it s regime is difficult to penetrate. and they ve been wrong about biological weapons in the past including in the runup to the iraq war. still, experts who study north korea point to what they say is troubling evidence, including this photograph from two years ago as kim tour the biological
Over him. he has purged most of the ranks of the military that he inherited from his father and with the killing earlier there year of his half brother in malaysia, who was killed what appears to be an anthrax attack at the airport he s gotten rid of the one natural successor who he feared the chinese might see as somebody more pliable to put in place and still have someone within the family so he s been pretty carefully eliminating his opposition. i think one of the big questions now is once the president made the decision the other day to put them back on the state sponsor of terrorism list in part because of the killing of the brother in malaysia, the half brother in malaysia the question is does that make it harder to start up negotiations with them or easier? i suspect it s probably going to make it harder, at least for a while. okay. david sack sanger, the video is