The F.B.I.’s Anthrax Case

[dutch508]

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groovedaddy  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-01-10 11:59 AM
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The F.B.I.’s Anthrax Case 
 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a report that is supposed to clinch the case that a lone scientist mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001, terrorizing a country already traumatized by the 9/11 attacks. The agency cites voluminous circumstantial evidence that is largely persuasive, but its report leaves too many loose ends to be taken as a definitive verdict.

The scientist — Dr. Bruce Ivins, an Army biodefense expert — killed himself in 2008 as the investigation moved ever closer to an indictment. That means the evidence and the F.B.I.’s conclusion that he was the culprit and acted alone will never be tested in court.

At least five letters containing powdered anthrax were addressed to two United States senators and to news organizations in New York and Florida. Their deadly spores killed five people, sickened 17 others and forced the temporary closure of Congressional offices, the Supreme Court, postal facilities and private offices.

The F.B.I.’s conclusion rests in large part on pioneering laboratory techniques that matched genetic mutations in the anthrax that was mailed with identical mutations in a batch of anthrax created and maintained by Dr. Ivins. The National Academy of Sciences will complete a review of that lab work in coming months. But the techniques were devised with the aid of some of the country’s most sophisticated scientists, so they are presumably reliable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28sun2.html?t... 

they didn't say he was a cross dressing, bondage loving, Obama voter, however...

boobooday  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-01-10 12:28 PM
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4. I think the NYTimes comes to the proper conclusion
 The FBI does not have sufficient credibility to put this controversy to rest without an independent investigation.

We will be hearing about this in the DUngeon for the next ten years...

[USA4ME]

The FBI records show that some Ivins acquaintances shared with the FBI e-mail and instant message communications exchanged with the scientist. In a July 2008 e-mail, Ivins wrote that "Dick Cheney scares me. The Patriot Act is so unconstitutional it's not even funny." He added, "I'm voting for Obama!"

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0301101ivins1.html

So the anthrax killer was a liberal.  Anyone surprised?

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[The Village Idiot]

So the anthrax killer was a liberal.  Anyone surprised?

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nope no surprise

[GOBUCKS]

I wonder if this cross-dressing, sorority-lurking, bondage-loving, muslim-voting anthrax killer was related to the DUmmies' favorite columnist, dead Molly.