I doubt they would hit the public again. The profile of this attack was narrowly focused to help build the case against Iraq and to rescue the military Biotech industry. A lone whacko would have sent more material to taunt the FBI. That is another reason the FBI is so ho-hum about the case; they know the real culprits are not a threat to do this again. So much for justice. Impeachment should go forward on a number of fronts--but this murder of our own civilians by illegally manufactured Anthrax is the cornerstone of the outrages committed by this administration.

The Handwriting and fiber analysis, plus the extreme industrial quality of the Anthrax would have almost certainly exonerated the unfortunate Bruce Ivins (unless the Supreme Court heard the case--they are partisan). I think civil cases will steamroll the FBI--it seems far more political than competent.

TLNC, or whatever the acronym. The point about the silica is germane and especially critical to he "science" the FBI is trying to pass off--or going to alter to pass off, now that CargoCult drew the parallel for everyone to see between the two flawed cases.

Apparently their salacious leaks earlier in the week were the best they could come up with. The scientific evidence is flim-flam, and seems designed to distract Americans from the fact that the culprit drew on existing stocks of weapons grade Anthrax. I would say that new stocks of Anthrax could have been produced just since May 2001 when Bush announced the U.S. would NOT allow inspections of its biotech facilities. Further, the biotech company making the illegal weapon would be highly classified (maybe NJ), and that information would have been withheld from the investigation. State Secrets. Executive Privilege. This attack was state-sponsored, coming from the stocks of the United States--stocks of an illegal and banned biological warfare agent. To me, that is the salient point of the case. Everything the FBI seems to have done is to distract people from the true quality of an industrially produced agent. That was their mandate? Some suspicious political types in Justice and fronting this outrageously bad work. They seem to be rushing to cover their own asses. I don't think they believed Ivins would die in this way, and put on a confident face for damage control.

Even if Ivins was the cut-out or even guilty, no matter how badly flawed their case, we know this: they are guilty of hounding a man to death before he could face his accusers in court. Where is accountability for the egregious lapse of ethics? Humiliating a man in front of his family with unproven allegations designed to get him to break emotionally and ruin him financially. Attempting to coerce family members with money and devastating photos. Cutting him completely off from his emotional his support (they must have known how devastated that would make him--they were gaming him). Hiring/coaching a therapist to provide privileged communication updates.

This stinks all right. I think we need to demand an investigation of the investigators. They crossed many lines and achieved little or nothing--saving killing a citizen before his day in court.

I have seen a lot of speculation about "why Princeton?" and "how Princeton?" Occam's razor, and the simplest answer had nothing to do with sororities or Princeton University. It was simply to spread terror--in a densely populated "enemy" region.

There was never any doubt at the time that Islamic terrorists were on the loose--they had used Newark Airport. "God knows what they were planning" was a popular refrain at the time.

New Jersey has a very high Arab-American/Islamic population. The presence of Anthrax at the Hamilton Post Office caused unrestrained fear in a large Blue State "surrounded" by terrorists. This is actually an indicator that the government planned and executed the attacks to my mind. It was a scientific choice that netted the most fear and terror. Most gas stations, and many inner city businesses were owned by Middle Easterners and other Islamic leaning immigrants. That part of the plan was sheer genius--until everything began to spin out of control and it was convenient to find a "lone whacko." The scale and geography of the attacks made such a frame-job ludicrous on its face.

Dr Zod et. al.:

I sent this to Glenn; but one wonders if he will be able to crash-dive through all of his e-mail. A little-remembered fact from May 21, 2001:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/may/21/usa.marktran/print

So, what offensive stockpiles of Anthrax the U.S. might have possessed were never the subject of scrutiny.

Tran ended the article:

"By spurning the 1972 protocol, the Bush administration has taken the wrecking ball to yet another international arrangement. It has already turned its back on the Kyoto accord on global warming and it wants to junk the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty. The administration appears determined to make the world a more dangerous place for everybody, including itself."

So, now we have sororities in peril, and stories of "borrowed" dryers that produce weapons grade Anthrax from stocks that were apparently never monitored.

The unimpeachable (pun intended) evidence points more towards the administration than a lone whacko who was not ideological.