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I heard him say that, too. With all the people he mentioned who were involved, they probably weren't looking through records.

On Fox News flash a few minutes ago, it was said that Thomas C. Butler had destroyed the missing bacteria cultures, which is a felony.

Will post more when it is repeated later.

A university professor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly telling authorities that 30 vials of plague were missing when he knew they had been destroyed, the U.S. attorney's office said.

The mysterious episode at Texas Tech University triggered a terrorism-alert plan and showed how jittery Americans are over the threat of a biological attack.

Dr. Thomas C. Butler, chief of the infectious diseases division of the department of internal medicine, was arrested late Wednesday on a complaint of making a false statement to a federal agent.