FBI Denies Overestimating Anthrax Power

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The FBI denied Thursday that it ever overestimated the potency of the anthrax spores used in mailings that killed five people in 2001.

The bureau also rejected a request for a classified briefing on the case from Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J. Citing media reports, Holt said Wednesday that the FBI should have determined in days, not years, that the anthrax was less sophisticated than initially believed.

Shortly after the attacks, media reports said the spores contained additives and had been subjected to sophisticated milling - both techniques used in anthrax-based weapons - to make them more lethal. Earlier this month, there were media reports that the FBI belatedly learned that those techniques were not used and the anthrax was not enhanced.

Bureau officials say the early reports of weaponized anthrax were misconceptions, and the more recent reports misunderstood how early the FBI was able to accurately analyze the spores.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6112900,00.html

[dave502d]

1. Our they saying they fuck that up to?

[acmejack]

2. No shit, these guys are supposed to be the best?

How stupid are we supposed to be? Please don't insult my intelligence.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Sopunds like another post-9/11 historical rewrire.

That clue about weaponized grade anthrax was a little too implicating...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. The early, widely publicized, reports were wrong?

Yet not a peep.

Bullshit.

[SmokingJacket]

5. But still Ames strain?

That is my question.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Well, I guess we can't blame the PNACers for planting the anthrax,

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Cuz if it came from the arsenal of the US military,

It sure as hell woulda been "enhanced"

AND

now the US military "research" division has just duplicated the virus that caused the 1918 "Spanish Flu" virus that killed 50 million worldwide - -

all for the sake of preventing another outbreak, mind you -

They would never consider using it for a biological weapon of Mass Destruction,

RIGHT?

Oh wait a minute,

I remember sumthing about poisoned blankets(smallpox) for native Americans about 2-3 centuries ago . . .

that'd be a biological weapon of mass destruction, wouldn't it?

How times change,

But people don't