* Former Senator Russ Feingold discusses the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings in his book, While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era (February 21, 2012)

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Carl Hulse writes in the NYT (2/21/12) …

• Russ Feingold always went his own way in the Senate, much to the frequent aggravation of his Democratic colleagues.
• But the Wisconsin Democrat was never more alone than on Oct. 11, 2001, when he was the sole opponent to the Patriot Act antiterror law pushed through on a 96-1 vote in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.
• Mr. Feingold assembles a narrative of how the terrorist attacks, the deadly anthrax assault in the capital and the sniper killings in the Washington region created a climate of fear that ultimately led to the antiterrorism law, the war in Iraq and ugly political attacks.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/in-book-feingold-offers-insiders-view-of-senate-post-sept-11/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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