Hey listeners, Josh Dean here, investigative reporter and host of the new podcast that just dropped on the

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Most of us remember 9-11, the terror, the fear, the sense that nothing and nobody was safe.

But few remember the terrifying attacks that happened in the weeks after,

which turned every mailbox in America into a potential weapon of mass destruction,

and every citizen into a potential target.

In October 2001, a series of letters filled with a deadly powder called anthrax were dropped into the U.S. mail system.

They were addressed to prominent journalists

and politicians in New York City and Washington, D.C.

The anthrax in those letters killed five people.

Seventeen others were infected.

You know, my throat and my glands were huge.

And I thought, oh my God, what the hell is wrong on me?

We're making sure that we connect any dots that we have to find out who's doing this.

It was the worst act of bioterrorism in American history, leading to years of

finger-point pointing and anxiety.

Not to mention an investigation full of costly rabbit holes, damaging leaks, and

embarrassing blunders.

Think about it.

They can lie about me.

Yeah, they can lie about you.

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