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<p>Nearly a year after Dr. Steven J. Hatfill went before the press to proclaim his innocence in the anthrax case and denounce FBI harassment, the bureau continues to focus its costly investigation on him but has not found evidence to solve the case.</p> <p>Now, with no breakthrough from the $250,000 draining of a Frederick-area pond, Hatfill's lawyers are preparing a civil suit to fight back, a New Jersey congressman wants answers from the FBI and the bureau may be at a crossroads in the case.</p>

Report: FBI Ends Searching Anthrax Pond Report: FBI Finished Searching Pond for Clues Into Anthrax Attack The Associated Press FREDERICK, Md. June 29 — FBI agents finished searching a pond for clues in the 2001 anthrax attacks on Saturday, finding no additional evidence to immediately suggest any links to the case, a report said. The FBI this month drained the 4- to 5-foot deep pond in the Frederick Municipal Forest, where authorities believed the suspect may have filled the envelopes with deadly spores under water for his own protection. The work drew FBI agents, other law enforcement officials and contractors,...

FREDERICK, Md. -- Investigators looking for clues to the 2001 anthrax attacks appeared to be using a giant sieve to strain muck scooped from the bottom of a drained woodland pond, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The device resembled a boxing ring, The Frederick News-Post reported. Eight workers in brightly colored safety vests and hard hats stood inside it Tuesday and used rakes to comb through loads of mud dumped by a steam shovel. The FBI had the one-acre pond drained June 9 as part of its investigation into the anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in the fall...

Fox news alert. Shep Smith mentioned a woman is being tested after skin lesions resembling anthrax appeared on her body after visiting a pond in the same area of the one previously drained.