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it is long past time to hold FBI Director Mueller accountable for the pathetically botched FBI Amerithrax investigation and also for the withholding of documents in violation of FOIA
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a Washington Post editorial (10/21/11) …
- BRUCE E. IVINS has been dead for three years, but questions still abound about whether he carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and seriously sickened 17 others.
- The FBI compiled what appeared to be an overwhelming case against the former microbiologist at Maryland’s Fort Detrick.
- Mr. Ivins took his own life in 2008 just as the Justice Department was preparing to charge him.
serious questions about the accuracy of the FBI investigation
have been raised
- This scientific evidence came under fire in February when the National Academy of Sciences, which was commissioned by the FBI to review the case, reported that the bureau had not performed enough tests or been precise enough to conclude definitively that Mr. Ivins was the lone culprit.
- Now three independent scientists have teamed up to publish a paper in the Journal of Bioterrorism and Biodefense that points to other alleged failings in the FBI’s testing procedures.
- Also this month, a joint investigation by PBS’s “Frontline” newsmagazine, the ProPublica online newsroom and McClatchy Newspapers raised additional questions about the accuracy of the FBI investigation.
the uncertainty is unacceptable …
Congress should convene a panel
of independent law enforcement specialists and scientists
to pore over the evidence collected in the course of the FBI investigation —
including classified information that was withheld from the NAS panel.
read the entire editorial at … http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/new-questions-about-fbi-anthrax-inquiry-deserve-scrutiny/2011/10/21/gIQAdE4h4L_story.html
CASE CLOSED ... what really happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks? 