WASHINGTON — When David Malet arrived at his job on Capitol Hill on Oct. 15, 2001, some semblance of normalcy was just starting to return after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was discovered in the 280 barrels of congressional mail quarantined after the first anthrax-laced letter, addressed to Senate Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle, was opened. The letter postmarked Trenton, N.J., was intercepted at an off-site inspection facility set up after the Daschle letter was discovered on Capitol Hill.
A hazardous material worker sprays his colleagues on Nov. 18, 2001, after an anthrax search at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Authorities closed two Senate office buildings to test for anthrax spores after investigators discovered a contaminated letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle talks about anthrax in his office and on Capitol Hill in Washington during an Oct. 17, 2001, news briefing with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., left, and Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., right.
A hazardous material worker sprays his colleagues on Nov. 18, 2001, after an anthrax search at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Authorities closed two Senate office buildings to test for anthrax spores after investigators discovered a contaminated letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
A letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was discovered in the 280 barrels of congressional mail quarantined after the first anthrax-laced letter, addressed to Senate Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle, was opened. The letter postmarked Trenton, N.J., was intercepted at an off-site inspection facility set up after the Daschle letter was discovered on Capitol Hill.
Then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle talks about anthrax in his office and on Capitol Hill in Washington during an Oct. 17, 2001, news briefing with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., left, and Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., right.
