The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a report that is supposed to clinch the case that a lone scientist mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001, terrorizing a country already traumatized by the 9/11 attacks. The agency cites voluminous circumstantial evidence that is largely persuasive, but its report leaves too many loose ends to be taken as a definitive verdict....
More problematic is the investigative work that led the F.B.I. to conclude that only Dr. Ivins, among perhaps 100 scientists who had access to the same flask, could have sent the letters.
The case has always been hobbled by a lack of direct evidence tying Dr. Ivins to the letters. No witnesses who saw him prepare the powdered anthrax or mail the letters. No anthrax spores in his house or car. No incriminating fingerprints, fibers or DNA. No confession to a colleague or in a suicide note, just opaque ramblings in e-mail that the F.B.I. interprets as evidence of guilt.
Many more questions exist in the NYTimes.com editorial. Hit the link above if you want a few more reasons to question the competence of our leaders in government.
Good job, USG!
You know that if you're wrong and it wasn't Ivins, the real Anthrax-mailer-guy is still out there, right? Couldn't he act again, perhaps in a different way so that you'd never know it was the same dude who sent the anthrax? Shouldn't you be *sure* you got the right guy? You know, connect *all* the dots instead of just the convenient ones?
Ah, who cares, right? We weren't sure we got the right guy in the White House back in 2000, who cares about getting anything right after that? ;P
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