* DXer says: Adnan El-Shukrijumah is the anthrax mailer … on or about 9/13/2001, he phoned from KSM’s house to tell his mom he was coming to the US

* Did Najibullah Zazi send the June/early July 2007 Goldman Sachs threat letters? Indicted with DXer’s candidate for the anthrax mailings Adnan El-Shukrijumah, Zazi’s coffee cart was right below the Goldman Sachs building at 825 Broad near Stone St.

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* Rep. Rush Holt is still trying to use the powers of government to review the FBI’s flawed investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Palm Beach Post, April 16, 2013:

“(the 2001) anthrax attacks took place at the U.S. Senate, in New York City and in Connecticut (and in Florida).

… And we still don’t know who did it.”

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Rep. Rush Holt (D, NJ) served as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from its start in 2007 until it was disbanded in 2010.  The Panel was charged with strengthening oversight of the intelligence community by ensuring that policymakers receive accurate assessments, civil liberties are safeguarded, and the intelligence community is protecting Americans at home and abroad.  Holt is also the Congressman who initiated the request for a GAO review of the FBI’s anthrax investigation, a review is is still ongoing.

* It’s time for a report from the GAO on their review of the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks … it is time for the Government Accountability Office to itself be accountable

UPDATE 2/26/13

Another 3 months have passed. There is no GAO report. There is no indication as to when, or if, a report will ever be issued. This is a disgrace, which more and more looks like a cover-up. Who is afraid of the truth?

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UPDATE 11/20/12

What we have now learned is that the GAO has apparently

not even started its investigation, more than a year

after they said it would likely be completed.

We’re trying to get a reaction and statement from Congressman Holt’s office.

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The GAO began its review of the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks in March 2011. At the time they said a report was expected in September 2011. We are now well past that deadline.

DXer believes the longer the GAO takes the better the job they will do. I disagree. I think the longer they take, the more interest will wane, and the more likely there will never be a report, and the whole matter will just fade away.

It is abundantly clear, from this blog and from many other sources, that the FBI’s assertion that Dr. Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 attacks, or even that he was involved in any way, is not proven by the evidence the FBI has issued in support of their allegations. The NAS, for instance, was clear that the scientific evidence the FBI said proved Ivins was the perpetrator did no such thing.

The crime is too serious, the current and future implications too dire, to simply leave the matter with a flawed FBI conclusion. America deserves better. It is time for GAO to speak, at the very least to issue a progress report, indicating what they have looked at, what remains to be reviewed, and when they think they will complete their task. 

In other words, it is time for the Government Accountability Office to itself be accountable.

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* 9/11 Energy & Commerce Committee Statement On GAO Report On Anthrax Detection – We Must Remain Vigilant To Ensure That Another Anthrax Attack Doesn’t Happen

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* Bioweapons expert Jonathan Tucker noted in his 2010 NATO briefing that skeptics had pointed out numerous holes in the FBI’s “Ivins Theory” (and see 2013 book)

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* 302 Statement: Seed Stock Used To Grow More Ames Was IVINS’ Spore Stock And Was Not Frozen; The Prosecutors’ Assertions To The Contrary Are Not Supported By Any Lab Notebook

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* GAO Should Obtain A Copy Of This Disk Of Ivins Digital Evidence Review From FBI

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* Deposition of Director of FBI Laboratory Dwight E. Adams (excerpt)

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* Oct 26, 2012 journal article discussing Amerithrax forensics and the need for objective, scientifically-based criteria

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