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WOODRUFF: White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer answering a blizzard of questions after a very disturbing revelation on his part, that earlier today at a remote mail-handling facility, he told us that at a military base miles from the White House, a quantity of anthrax was found on what he described as a slitter -- a machine that opens the letters that are destined for either the White House, the executive office buildings and the Secret Service.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001 2001

It was found on what's called a slitter, which is a mechanical device that opens the mail.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001 2001

One of the mail handling machines, known as a slitter, which is described as a machine that opens up the letters, was found to have traces of anthrax spores on it.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001 2001

QUESTION: The sample was found on the slitter, meaning one assumes it opened some envelope.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001 2001

In another, less generous, passage she imagines him as a murderer, a "serial bronchoscopist . . . a slitter of throats and inserter of cold rods".

Swallow: Foreign Bodies by Mary Cappello – review 2011

On October 22, anthrax was found on an automated slitter used to open letters at a Secret Service facility in an undisclosed location some miles away.

Fishing for a Way to Change the World 2008

* The Guardian on the rise of wrist-slitter fiction.

One Post to Rule Them All « Gerry Canavan 2007

* The Guardian on the rise of wrist-slitter fiction.

April « 2007 « Gerry Canavan 2007

Stick with Rock Leg Ends, like me and The Edge, but of course not that whingey, whiney wrist-slitter Dylan.

John Mayer, you are dead to me 2007

"Major Chinja Chinja (the throat-slitter) has been arrested since April 8 by military intelligence agents," Fernando Castanon, head of MONUC's human rights section, said during a press briefing.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005