FBI Refuses to release documents in Anthrax case

[kpete]

FBI Refuses to release documents in Anthrax case

They're certain that Bruce Ivins is the right guy, and the only suspect involved in the 2001 anthrax attacks (at least more surer than they were the last time they had the right guy)but the FBI just can't bring themselves to release the documents pertaining to that investigation. Fancy that.


WASHINGTON — The FBI is declining to release at least 15,000 pages of documents related to the now-deceased prime suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks despite lingering suspicions that the bureau has accused the wrong man.

In August, the FBI and Justice Department identified Bruce Ivins, a former microbiologist at the U.S. Army’s biological weapons research center at Ft. Detrick, Md., as the “only person involved” in the attacks that killed five people.
But David Hardy, the section chief of the FBI’s records management division, notified McClatchy Newspapers that his office couldn’t immediately release the records because there were “investigative leads still open” and the FBI needed to withhold the documents to protect confidential sources, privacy, law enforcement techniques and a suspect’s right to a fair trial.

If it turns out that the FBI was wrong a second time during this investigation, this time driving the suspect to suicide, they'll no doubt be another - no doubt larger - lawsuit to settle. But, will the agency finally change their guilty-until-proven-innocent style tactics?

more at:
http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/2008/09/fbi-refuses-to-release-documents-in.html

[LiberalHeart]

1. Protecting a suspect's right to a fair trial -- but Ivins acted alone? Weird.

I hope President Obama releases the info the same day he takes office.

[Supersedeas]

2. there must be plenty of exculpatory evidence that made a trial unlikely

[BuyingThyme]

3. kcik