By EVAN PÉREZ
August 19, 2008; Page A3
WASHINGTON — Federal Bureau of Investigation scientists said investigative missteps, including destruction of an anthrax sample provided by their sole suspect, don’t diminish conclusive evidence they contend solves the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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The Bush administration has increased the likelihood not just that terror will come to “the homeland,” but that it will come from the homeland.”
Tom Engelhardt
August 18, 2008
Oh, the spectacle of it all—and don’t think I’m referring to those opening ceremonies in Beijing, where North Korean-style synchronization seemed to fuse with smiley-faced Walt Disney, or Michael Phelp’s thrilling hunt for eight gold medals and Speedo’s one million dollar “bonus,” a modernized tribute to the ancient Greek tradition of amateurism in action. No, I’m thinking of the blitz of media coverage after Dr. Bruce Ivins, who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, committed suicide by Tylenol on July 29th and the FBI promptly accused him of the anthrax attacks of September and October 2001.
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Strands From Mailbox in Princeton Are Not From Ivins, Investigators Say
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 14, 2008; A02
Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J., but the strands did not match the lead suspect in the case, according to sources briefed on the probe.
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Submitted by Mark on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 8:57am.
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Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
August 9, 2008
You’d have to be a terribly cautious and willfully blind person not to think that the Bush Administration was capable of orchestrating the anthrax attacks. You’d almost have to be a fool.
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Larisa Alexandrovna
One thing that has long bothered me is why no one thought to examine the 2005 Tularemia appearance in DC and the Anthrax attacks of 2001? (or if they have, I have not seen it).
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