IMO not a good place to start in this matter.
I beg to differ. Did you read the language they used?
This is an FBI person writing the paper. He would have had to agree with all the language in it.
What would the theft of anthrax look like....how would you tell that there had been something going on??
IMO one would look for stray cases...especially downwind. I'd look for it in animals and on people who had no known contact.
The good thing is that we can identify the strain. That will tell all.