FBI investigation of 2001 anthrax attacks concluded; U.S. releases details

[UpInArms]

Source: Washington Post

The Justice Department officially ended its eight-year investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks Friday with the release of hundreds of pages of documents that starkly portray the mental unraveling of the deceased Army scientist accused of committing the worst act of bioterrorism in U.S. history.

The records offer substantial support for the FBI's contention that biologist Bruce E. Ivins single-handedly prepared and mailed deadly anthrax spores that killed five people and terrorized a nation still reeling from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Drawing from the suspect's e-mails and recorded conversations, the FBI documents show an increasingly agitated Ivins seeking to implicate colleagues while misleading investigators about his ability to make the deadly powder used in the attacks.

In a new disclosure, Justice officials released a transcript of a secretly taped conversation in which Ivins suggests that he might have committed acts that he could no longer recall.

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The transcript was among hundreds of evidentiary findings and exhibits that Justice officials say add up to an overwhelming case against Ivins, despite the lack of a confession, eye-witnesses or a single fingerprint linking the scientist to the crime.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021902369.html

[UTUSN]

1. So what's the bottom line: DID it or didn't do it?!1 n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

3. definitely he did or didn't do it

a politician told me, so it must be true

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[PassingFair]

2. "might have committed acts that he could no longer recall."

SOLID!

:sarcasm:


:eyes:

[arcadian]

4. Rather convenient that the guy shot himself.

[UpInArms]

8. overdose of Tylenol 3

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/08/01/bruce-e-ivins-2001-anthrax-suspect-commits-suicide-as-fbi-justice-department-about-to-file-charges/

Ivins, whose name had not been disclosed publicly as a suspect in the case, played a central role in research to improve anthrax vaccines by preparing anthrax formulations used in experiments on animals.

Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins also helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator’s office in Washington.

Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after ingesting a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and colleague, who declined to be identified out of concern that he would be harassed by the FBI.

[Amonester]

5. And... under the rug it goes.

How convenient...

[lovuian]

6. what a scam They had their Oswald and dead to boot

to blame so nice and neat package
lets move on America

[rhett o rick]

9. Bull shit. nt

[Drops_not_Dope]

10. $100.00 says Ivins didn't do it

[hayu_lol]

11. Carlyle Group and the Bushies...

strike again.

[windbreeze]

21. agreed!! and they know who did...n/t

[SlingBlade]

12. Nut'in to see here, Move along, Stop look'in backwards

[pasto76]

13. just remember, this did not happen under Bush

the end.

[New Dawn]

14. Bull fucking shit.

[fasttense]

15. I bet that's a load of worry off of Cheney.

Cheney now has the scapegoat fully tied to the crime.

We all know, Cheney had his dirty hands all over this. But of course there were no terrorist attacks under the bushes.

[TheWatcher]

16. Translation: Cover Up Completed, time to move on to next Crime.

[Bitwit1234]

17. AND THE NEVER EVER TOLD US ABOUT

the elderly lady in New England who got anthrax n one of her letters. And it didn't come from the same place as the other letters were mailed. WHY was she targeted. Lived there all her live never messed with any body and was liked by all....she seemed to be deleted in the anthrax explanation. WHY WHY

[nebenaube]

18. there are no doubt others as well... n/t

[Supersedeas]

22. lots of threads that were not exposed to a jury -- right to confront suicided

[fascisthunter]

19. bullshit... it was more right wing terrorism

brought to you buy some sick people in our own government. I think this man's suicide is a bit too convenient and I just don't buy the story this FBI is issuing as truth. I distrust the FBI almost as much as I distrust the GOP itself.

[winyanstaz]

20. This is such a farce.....

You would have to be brain dead to believe this hogwash....

"The transcript was among hundreds of evidentially findings and exhibits that Justice officials say add up to an overwhelming case against Ivins, despite the lack of a confession, eye-witnesses or a single fingerprint linking the scientist to the crime."

This is the same damned thing they did to Leonard Peltier too... no fingerprints, "testimony" of the "witnesses" were all later proven to have been either beaten or frightened out of them by the fbi..no fingerprints and no gun...and yet he still sits in prison.

No one can believe the government or in the law anymore because of this kind of baloney.

Head should be rolling but Noooooooooo. And don't hold your breath for Conyers to do diddly-squat either.