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MORRIS: This is the post office downtown, um, Brentwood Road, Washington, D.C., post office. [pause] There was--ah, a woman found an envelope, and I was in the vicinity. It had powder in it. They never let us know whether the thing had anthrax or not. They never, ah, treated the people who were around this particular individual and the supervisor who handled the envelope. Ah, so I don't know if it is or not. I'm just--I haven't been able to find out. I've been calling. [That particular envelope tested negative.] But the symptoms that...
Even as Senators were being assured that their workplace would soon be safe, postal workers were clamoring for the same promise. Washington's Brentwood sorting facility remains closed until it can be cleaned, and postal employees in New York City filed a suit--which a federal judge rejected on Friday--to have the Morgan processing center, where anthrax also turned up, shuttered and sanitized. Morgan's infected machines can likely be cleaned with foam, but Brentwood, where the anthrax was aerosolized, probably needs a full gas bombing. Unlike Hart, the warehouse-like Brentwood may be a good candidate for building...
...died hours later. Looking back on the confusing days prior, it's clear that his death didn't occur in a vacuum. A full week before Curseen died, just after the Daschle aide opened the letter, postal officials were aware that it had gone through the Brentwood distribution center in northeast Washington--where all congressional mail is shipped. That very evening, Oct. 15, in a series of conference calls, officials from all federal agencies involved in the investigation--including the FBI, the Secret Service, U.S. Capitol Police, the Postal Inspection Service and the CDC--learned from Fort Detrick scientists what...
...moved to close the Brentwood office or warn employees that they might be at risk. "We were dealing with a sealed letter that arrived in the Daschle office," says CDC director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan. "People say, 'Why couldn't you have guessed that sealed envelopes could have leaked this material?' Our experience had been that sealed envelopes don't leak." Koplan also says the CDC was not informed of the spores' small size, a claim that was disputed by a source involved in the briefings...
...Fear pierced the walls of the White House Tuesday afternoon, when the remote postage facility that handles White House mail tested positive for anthrax. The Anacostia Naval Station, located miles from the presidential residence, is serviced by the Brentwood post office where two employees were diagnosed with inhaled anthrax. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer expressed "confidence" that no one at the White House had been exposed to the bacteria. Environmental tests at the White House are negative...