What was that "wishy-washy, meaningless statement"? Do you have a reference?
Here’s the wishy-washy statement. It says precisely nothing. What it does say is, in fact, total BS.
Here’s the letter:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/fbi_holt_letter092806.pdf
“Contrary to the assertions in your letter, the investigation into the anthrax attacks of 2001 has made significant progress and has been one of the largest and most complex investigations ever conducted.”
As to the new scientific study showing the anthrax used in 2001 to be less sophisticated than previously thought, the FBI wrote, “Since the earliest months of this investigation, we have consulted with the world’s foremost scientific experts on anthrax and relevant bio-forensic sciences, both inside and outside the FBI. While there have been erroneous media reports about the character of the 2001 anthrax, the FBI’s investigation has never been guided by such reports.”
That is clearly total BS. We had Mason admitting in September 2003 that the FBI failed to reproduce the senate powder (link below). That is hardly consistent with the BS letter to Holt above.
Of course since you usually read the complete opposite of what is written on this case, I assume you read the words “FBI succeeds to re-create anthrax production” instead of “FBI fails to re-create anthrax production”
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/fbifailsanthrax.html
WASHINGTON — Two years after the nation’s deadly anthrax attacks, the FBI still has not been able to re-create the process the killer used to produce the substance sent through the U.S. mail, a top FBI official said Monday.
But Michael Mason, the new assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, said testing has helped investigators “narrow” some aspects of the investigation and convinced them that the culprit has special expertise.