This would NOT involve a massive conspiracy
So, what are you saying? Are you saying that if the FBI doesn't want to discuss details about "the nature of the anthrax" with Congress that means they are covering up the fact that the anthrax had a supersophisticated coating and that it was created as part of some illegal U.S. government bioweapons program?
And that doesn't require a "massive conspiracy," only a non-massive conspiracy?
Why couldn't they just not want to discuss details about the nature of the anthrax with Congress because, as they've publicly and repeatedly STATED, members of Congress were leaking confidential information to the media?
The facts indicate that they found polymerized glass in the anthrax and that it was there as a result of lab contamination. And the facts also indicate that at that time they did not know what kind of evidence could be extracted from such traces of lab contamination or from other Microbial Forensic investigation methods. And if they didn't know what kind of evidence they might be able to collect, they couldn't possibly know if the culprit might be able to somehow negate the evidence if he knew what they were looking for.
You may believe that if the FBI doesn't tell outsiders about details of evidence that it is proof of some kind of conspiracy, but the fact is that it is simply STUPID and against FBI investigative procedures to discuss investigative such details with outsiders -- even members of Congress (maybe even especially members of Congress).
Ironically, it wasn’t congress that leaked the information. It was the FBI.
The FBI has done nothing but stall, stall, stall on releasing ANY inforamtion. They have repeatedly told tall stories to judges that they were weeks away from an indictment. They pretended they had “super secret” information. When they finally shared this “super secret” information with the judge he laughed them out of court.
The AFIP announcement still stands as the ONLY credible information about the spores.
Beecher (supposedly at the “center of the investigation”) was not involved in the analysis, has not seen the analysis, and wrote a parargaph in a paper that editors now agree should NOT have passed peer review.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/84/8449gov1.html
This is the FBI’s first public statement on the investigation since it began analyzing the material in the Leahy letter and the first time the bureau has described the anthrax powder. Beecher, however, provides no citation for the statement or any information in the article to back it up, and FBI spokeswomen have declined requests to interview him.
“The statement should have had a reference,” says L. Nicholas Ornston, editor-in-chief of the microbiology journal. “An unsupported sentence being cited as fact is uncomfortable to me. Any statement in a scientific article should be supported by a reference or by documentation,” he says.
To have the editor in Chief of Applied & Environmental Microbiology (the SAME journal Beecher published in) now say it should not have been included is pretty bad for Beecher - and the FBI.
http://aem.asm.org/misc/edboard.shtml
Editor in Chief
L. Nicholas Ornston (2011)
Yale University