AP Source: FBI formally closes anthrax case

Associated Press ^ | Feb. 19, 2010 | DEVLIN BARRETT

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has decided with finality that a government researcher acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings and is closing its long-running investigation, a person familiar with the case said Friday.

The anthrax letters were sent to lawmakers and news organizations as the nation reeled in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The person informed of the decision to close the case was not authorized to speak about it before an official announcement expected later Friday, and therefore spoke on condition of anonymity.

[the Real fifi]

I don’t think he did it.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Authorities tried to build a case against biowarfare expert Steven Hatfill, but ultimately had to pay him a multimillion-dollar settlement.

Hatfill should have received much more than that, the government destroyed his life.

[swain_forkbeard]

Fishsmell.

[Roccus]

Just as well. The FBI is either unable or unwilling to find out the true perp, so no sense wasting anymore time and money on it.

[hennie pennie]

I don’t think he did it, either.

[Thud]

The anthrax used against us in 2001 was weaponized by a process unknown to the U.S., any of its allies and Russia. Ken Abilek, the former USSR's biowar chief, came here after the USSR collapsed and told us of all of the USSR's many anthrax weaponization processes, and those of its allies.

Developing a wholly new process for weaponizing anthrax requires an industrial-scale research and development process. While some means of anthrax weaponization are easy to implement once known (as in one expert can produce some varieties of weaponized anthrax, albeit all with a rather short storage life, in a reasonably well-equipped lab), developing such processes requires a small army of experts, significant industrial support and piles of money.

Only a government can deploy such resources in secret. I.e., the anthrax used on us in 2001 was researched by a government unfriendly to the U.S.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Assistant Director Skinner sweated bullets while the Smoking Man hid in the shadows...

[TokuMei]

They induced an innocent man to kill himself, the have NO IDEA who did it, and their guess is that they will NEVER know.

So they closed the book.

[jd777]

Well that wraps that up!