The lesson here is:
Don’t bring a dead fish to work if it arrives in the mail from an anonymous sender, particularly when it comes with white powder. Then again, maybe it’s just good policy not to bring a dead fish to work. Period!
By Jeff Stein
Spytalk
WASHINGTON –It looks like Maureen McCarthy is dead in the water, at least for the moment.
McCarthy, the DHS bioweapons official who caused a minor sensation earlier this month when she brought a mystery fish and white powder to her downtown office, is “on leave for awhile,” according to a woman answering the phone in her office today.
Asked when she might return, the woman in her office, who did not identify herself, said, “We really don’t know.”
Two other sources familiar with the situation confirmed that McCarthy is on an indefinite leave, with pay.
The fish and unidentified powder had been sent anonymously to the home of McCarthy, who holds a PhD in chemical physics, in early February. She told DHS officials she put the fish and powder into the freezer overnight and brought it to work in the trunk of her car the next morning on the advice of the private security company at her building, according to news reports.
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