FBI requests review of anthrax case

[sabra]

Source: Baltimore Sun

Skeptics say anthrax that killed 5 in 2001 did not come from Fort Detrick

WASHINGTON - The FBI is asking the National Academy of Sciences to review its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks, Director Robert S. Mueller III told lawmakers this morning.

The review is intended to address doubts about the guilt of Bruce E. Ivins, the Fort Detrick scientist who killed himself in July. The FBI says Ivins, who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, was the sole suspect in the attacks.

Skeptics, including Rep. Roscoe T. Bartlett, say the anthrax that killed five and sickened 17 others in the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, did not come from Fort Detrick.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-anthrax0916,0,4692146.story

[Gillian]

1. I fear it is another grassy knollgate.

Let us go with the neocons and just say it was one of the bin Ladens.

[EFerrari]

2. That's the strongest statement to date. Thank you, sabra!

:loveya:

[EFerrari]

3. Oh -- and, does anyone know where the Academy gets their dough? n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Do you know the answer and are just leaving us hanging?

[EFerrari]

5. No -- I don't know and was trying to find out. Sorry!

I got sidetracked watching the hearing. Mueller couldn't have been more rude to John Conyers. I felt like someone slapped me in the face just watching him.

[EFerrari]

6. Okay, -- they get 85% of their funding from the Feds.

That will surely be an independent study and I'm sure that the altruistic FBI suggested that body for just that reason. :sarcasm:

ETA: link

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=80288