Investigatin' is HARD WORK! After suicide, feds consider closing anthrax case

[gatorboy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_scientist;_ylt=AlZ1JS19gS_9iHecoNCsPH1H2ocA

WASHINGTON - The chief suspect in the anthrax attacks now dead, the Justice Department is expected to decide within days whether to close what had been one of its most high-profile unsolved cases.

Five people died and 17 others were sickened when anthrax-laced letters began showing up at congressional offices, newsrooms and post offices soon after Sept. 11, 2001.

After wrongly investigating Army scientist Steven Hatfill, the FBI more than a year ago began looking at another suspect: Bruce E. Ivins, who worked at the same military lab. Ivins, a decorated scientist who was working on an anthrax cure, killed himself last Tuesday.

David R. Franz, a former commander of the Army's lab biological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Md., where Ivins worked, said Saturday he thought it was "very important that the FBI present their case against Bruce and not just state that the investigation was over because it was him and he's gone."

[rzemanfl]

1. No, it should be "Feds are closing case with a suicide." n/t

[panader0]

2. I gotta hundred bucks that says this is NOT a suicide.

[Danieljay]

3. something is really effed up about this... This is just too convenient. n/t

[Demeter]

4. Closing this case because the current suspect is dead is a travesty

It isn't believable that he was the perp in the first place.

It's very believable that he was badgered to death, just as Vince Foster was.

It's too damn convenient for Bush and Cheney and Rove.

The real perp will still be out walking the streets--and I doubt it was a single person, or that it wasn't a black bag operation.

[ladjf]

7. To close the case due to the death of the suspect says that

convicting the suspect was the reason for the investigation. In this case, finding out what happened so that it can be prevented should be the primary purpose of the investigation.

[Supersedeas]

9. convenient for the propoganda Admin; convenient for the Infotainment Media--now back to the daily

poll tracking numbers and more blather about from Pundits who opinions and accountability mean squat

[Prefer]

5. what kind of hospital was he in when he ended it all?

[gatorboy]

6. His therapist, Jean Duley specialized in prescription drug abuse.

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=76902

[Junkdrawer]

8. You should have heard NPR shucking and jiving over...

"If Ivans was so obviously sociopathic, why was he in charge of the nation's Anthrax program?"

Hard work, but I bet they convinced a lot of "driveway moments" listeners.

NPR - A Nation Treasure.

[Muttocracy]

10. but they also had a good piece interviewing his colleagues who don't believe it

and that they're not convinced that there's a DNA match of the anthrax.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3721081&mesg_id=3721081

direct link http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93226268