Solving the Last Riddle of Watergate

By GottaLaff

I'm going to reveal a deep, dark secret I've kept for years. Right here on TPC, yes, I shall tell you all something I've never told anyone... ever. However, for security reasons, I'm going to delete the last 18 1/2---

Sometime during the Watergate scandal, 18 1/2 minutes of a taped conversation between President Nixon and his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, were suspiciously erased, becoming "one of the great political mysteries of the 20th century."

Mother Jones says Haldeman took "meticulous notes on a tablet of yellow lined paper with a ballpoint pen" and now a one time NSA analyst says he may be able to resurrect Haldeman's notes "via a CSI-ish technology that can extract information from the imprints made by a ballpoint pen."

Fort Detrick disease samples may be missing

By GottaLaff

Uh-oh:

Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick.

As first reported in today's edition of The Frederick News-Post by columnist Katherine Heerbrandt, the investigators are from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division unit at Fort Meade.

Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. [...]

USAMRIID is the Army's top biodefense lab, where researchers study pathogens including Ebola, anthrax and plague.

More details here.