Of course the best question would be "What, you mean you just started to analyze the anthrax last November? Why did you wait 2 years?"
Of course that's embarassing, but then, the FBI was a bit victimized itself, being misled - and that whole "pure anthrax" wild goose chase matched to fit someone of Hatfill's capabilities.
I am pretty certain that the Science article shook up some trees, and changed some thinking.
Top Ten Reasons the FBI will give Judge Hurley to prevent Mrs Stevens from learning who murdered her husband.
(10) Ed Lake just told us Bob Stevens couldn't have died because nobody else got sick.
(9) We've narrowed it down to 537 different labs in 36 nations worldwide. Can we have 6 more months?
(8) We're still waiting to find out who Hatfill called on his cell phone on September 18, oh and April 6, 8 and 9 too, when he was in Florida.
(7) So far we've found out that the killer didn't make the anthrax using Nebraska tapwater in August. We just need more time.
(6) We just got a hot tip from scientifically illiterate retiree in Racine, WI that the killer works in a bowling alley.
(5) Anthrax schmamfrax.
(4) We still think that turtle trap was a portable bioweapons lab.
(3) He was an avid outdoorsman and he drank from a stream.
(2) We have a new theory that the anthrax had a coating of silica - we think that provides a clue we hadn't considered before.
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(1) Meselson just told us all the victims died from eating contaminated sausages.
The whisperings are that they had traced the genetic type to its source by the end of November of 2001.
They may have a good reason for having let the investigation hit a brick pond.