FBI officials defended on Monday the scientific evidence linking a U.S. Army scientist who committed suicide to the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, but acknowledged missteps occurred early in its investigation.
The FBI marched out a panel of outside scientific experts in an effort to end lingering doubts on whether Dr. Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the attacks that killed five people and shook a nation already reeling from the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
In briefings first for scientific journals and then for the news media, the FBI laid out what one official described as a “body of powerful evidence” after nearly seven years of investigation on the origin of the anthrax sent through the U.S. mail system and on the alleged perpetrator.
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The FBI earlier this month released federal court documents that outlined its case against Ivins, a researcher and an anthrax expert at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases or USAMRIID in Maryland.
Ivins killed himself late last month just as prosecutors prepared to charge him with murder for committing the attacks. His attorney has said he was innocent.
Several prominent scientists have questioned the FBI’s case against Ivins and the scientific backing for it.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
l have major doubts about this case. Some facts that I am sure of are that they never interviewed the mailman in Hamilton NJ who picked up the the anthrax tainted letter from a mailbox. He developed cutaneous anthrax infection on his hand. The phycians who treated him reported it to the FBI early on. The postman nor the physicians were ever contacted or interviewed by the FBI. How can this be when the FBI said they were doing everything possible to find the terrorists? As a side note, medical teams were sent into Manhattan and Washington DC to treat those that may have been exposed to anthrax. Many of my friends were on those teams. I inquired why no teams were being sent to Hamilton, NJ where possibly more people were exposed than anywhere else.The answer that I received from very high ups was such BS. They stated that Hamilton, NJ had enough resources to handle the potential victims without federal help. And WashingtonDC and Manhattan do not? Well, I got the real story from another friend. Seems I forgot that DC and NY are the media capitals and Hamilton is not.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hey FBI Men! (said like Chinese boy in “Sixteen Candles”),,,
We know you read these comments along with the puppet master goons. Please go an arrest the guy who advised the White House to start taking Anthrax vaccine before the attacks….
Go get him, and torture his ass! What? You’re Chicken? Surely not the FBI is chicken? Are ya?
Go get Jerome Hauer….. who happpened to be the Emergency management Director in WTC7, which also came down mysteriously that afternoon on 9/11. What is his specialty? Controlled Demolition Specialist? Ohhhhhh Fucking WOW!
Are you guys fucking idiots? Is that what you want us to believe? Now get the fuck off your lazy asses and solve the case for America. It really is NOT that hard in todays age of technology. You want us to believe again that not only the Federal Government is a bunch of fucking incompetent pieces of shit? You do too…………
Oh well, you all just rolled over like the US Media did on the Anthrax case…. We got more investigation and coverage on OJ Simpson….. go figure….
Coffeelover……..
August 19th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
the FBI set the guy up then killed him end of that story
August 21st, 2008 at 6:11 am
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