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To: Selectric II who wrote (6927)	10/23/2001 12:09:06 AM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 281500

Selectric II, "Congress gets its mail from that postal sorting facility and has its own selfish political interests at heart when considering the ramifications of whether constituents' mail gets to them so it can be responded to, generating re-election votes, among other concerns. Brentwood is part of Congress's communications link, and it has been hit by terrorists, whether directly or incidentally. " The particular facility is not the question. The only relevance that Brentwood has is symbolic. The real attack is on the heart of correspodence of financial and legal documentation in this country. The amount of such correspondence within the US mail actually dwarfs (by an exceeding amount) the perceived utility of the internet at this time. Doug R

To: Selectric II who wrote (6927)	10/23/2001 7:16:30 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The point is that Congress gets its mail from that postal sorting facility and has its own selfish political interests at heart when considering the ramifications of whether constituents' mail gets to them so it can be responded to, generating re-election votes, among other concerns. I agree with that logic. So, given that, why do you think that the Brentwood facility, a facility that was so important to Congressional communications, was not treated the same as the facilities in NJ or Florida, and the CDC did not order at least testing of its postal workers? Why wasn't that logic followed in D.C.?