Bill Ivins

Days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a terrified nation was shocked again by a handful of anonymous letters laced with deadly anthrax. Five people died. Seventeen were sickened or injured; tens of millions were frightened. In a new book on the anthrax scare, Pulitzer Prize winner David Willman says the trauma boosted passage of the Patriot Act -- and gave the government vast new powers to spy on us. The Bush administration also used it to drum up support for war on Iraq.