Followed today by the latest spin:
FBI Statement on the Status of the Investigation into the 2001 Anthrax
Mailings
Today, Joseph Persichini, Jr., Acting Assistant Director of the FBI's
Washington Field Office, made the following statement:
The investigation into the deadly 2001 anthrax attack is one of the
largest and most complex investigations ever conducted by law
enforcement. Today, the FBI's commitment to solving this case is
undiminished. The men and women of the FBI and the U.S. Postal
Inspection Service assigned to the case remain fully committed to
bringing the perpetrator(s) of these murderous attacks to justice.
While no arrests have been made, the dedicated investigators who have
worked tirelessly on this case, day-in and day-out, continue to go the
extra mile in pursuit of every lead. From the Director to the
investigating agents and inspectors, there is confidence the case will
be solved.
Second, while not well known to the public, the scientific advances
gained from this investigation are unprecedented and have greatly
strengthened the government's ability to prepare for - and prevent -
biological attacks in the future. Since the first anthrax mailing,
investigators have worked hand in hand with the scientific community to
both solve this case and to be best positioned in the event of a future
attack.
Despite the frustrations that come with any complex investigation, no
one in the FBI has, for a moment, stopped thinking about the innocent
victims of these attacks, nor has the effort to solve this case in any
way been slowed.
Nobody doubts or questions any of the basic claims:
1. The anthrax attacks followed 9/11 by days. A disgruntled white guy trying to do that and pin it on the 9/11 hijackers would not have had the necessary time.
2. The one "disgruntled white guy" they tried to investigate noted that if he were stupid enough to do that he'd either be dying of anthrax as they spoke or would have the serum antibodies in his blood and he offered to take a blood test on the spot, fibbies facilities or his, and that was unanswerable.
3. The first cases turned up ten miles down the road from where the jackers were staying.
4. The last previous case of anthrax in a human in the US had been thirty years prior to that.
5. The Czechs are sticking with their story about Atta meeting with one of Hussein's top spies in Prague shortly before 9/11 and pictures of the two together have been published on the web.
You do not need to be Albert Einstein to put this easy a puzzle together.
The one argument I've seen anybody make against this overwhelming circumstantial case is that Bush and co would have been shouting it from the rooftops were it true. That is basically an argument from incredulity which does not wash given the facts. Bush and company do not figure they need this to win elections and they do not want anybody thinking that somebody did something like this and it was two years before we could act due to the condition in which SlicKKK KKKlintler had left the US military.
I noticed a couple of days ago that everyone's favorite "Fake Detective" seems to still think that the Feds are in the process of gathering evidence against a specific "culprit" (not Hatfill).
I wonder if he ever pauses for a moment to wonder just how it is that, in this day and age of leaks where nothing seems to stay a secret for very long, the identity of this culprit and the nature of the evidence has been kept under wraps so successfully.
ping.
I'm confused. Wasn't a fellow named Mason appointed after Harp left? Just after the Science article which, reading between the lines, caused them to retest the anthrx?
"AMERITHRAX"
The "profile" even guided the name of the investigation!
The whole FBI is broken, and Bush hasn't done anything to fix it. Mueller is hopeless. His speciality is handing out medals to clintonoids.
I'm sure there are still some good agents working there, but they are not the guys in charge. Here we are, six years after the election, and bill clinton might as well still be running it.
Sheesh. I'd hate to hear which cases are stuck in the mud. DB Cooper, perhaps?
Remember the drum maker in the New York area who caught anthrax? Here's another in Scotland, unfortunately dead-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/5334696.stm
"...The anthrax testing on Mr Norris' house has been completed The results of anthrax tests at a home in the Scottish Borders are expected within four to six weeks...
Mr Norris died in July and diagnosis indicated the most likely cause was an infection caused by anthrax... Mr Norris was an artist who made musical instruments with materials which included untreated animal hides.
5 years later...
update bump
Former F.B.I. Agent Sues, Claiming Retaliation Over Misgivings in Anthrax Case
The New York Times ^ | 08 April 2015 | Scott Shane
Former F.B.I. Agent Sues, Claiming Retaliation Over Misgivings in Anthrax Case
4/16/2015, 1:30:01 PM · by Theoria · 4 replies
The New York Times ^ | 08 April 2015 | Scott Shane
When Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist, took a fatal overdose of Tylenol in 2008, the government declared that he had been responsible for the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, which killed five people and set off a nationwide panic, and closed the case. Now, a former senior F.B.I. agent who ran the anthrax investigation for four years says that the bureau gathered “a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence” regarding Dr. Ivins that remains secret. The former agent, Richard L. Lambert, who spent 24 years at the F.B.I., says he believes it is possible that Dr. Ivins was the anthrax...