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Anonymous Scientist points out that “We are now at T+ 51 days since the FBI announced they were “on the verge” of closing the anthrax case.”
It is more than 13 months since August 2008 when the FBI said they would complete a few administrative details and then close the case, having charged the recently deceased Dr. Bruce ivins as the sole perpetrator (which prompted me to write my novel CASE CLOSED).
It is but a week or so since the NAS said they would sequester FBI-produced documents until the end of their study but declined (so far) to provide the legal authority upon which they base their decision to do so.
I remain an optimist.
I believe the NAS to be an agency of integrity.
I believe the NAS will not be bullied by the FBI into passive acceptance of wrongheaded directives.
I believe the NAS will look at the documents it has, compare those with the exceptions in the FOIA law, and conclude that, as DXer said, if they can be released at the end of the study, they must be released now.
Or, if there are statutory exceptions to FOIA disclosure which apply, NAS will advise what they are.
I remain an optimist; I think we’ll have some answers soon.
see related posts at …
- * new NAS response asserts that “much” of the FBI material it has received is exempt from FOIA disclosure, but fails to cite specific legal authority for such exemption; is this a wilful breach of NAS’s responsibility under FOIA?
- * the NAS has sequestered FBI submitted documents and will not make these available until the end of the study, over a year hence … the legal rationale for this sequestering is now expected next week.
- * the FBI, so certain a year ago, may now be terrified to expose its unconvincing case to public scrutiny, or may now have reason to believe that Dr. Ivins may not have been the SOLE perpetrator, or even involved at all
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