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The MSM has been reporting as of yesterday that the DOJ "expects" to come to a decision mid-week or so about releasing their case against Dr. Ivins with the MSM's thrust that the DOJ will indeed release it.
What will we be fed this time?
It is likely, even hightly probable, that the case against Dr. Ivins will have no "smoking gun" as evidence. No evidence that could concretely and unabiguously link the anthrax attacks directly to Dr. Ivins and to no other.
If the government had such a "smoking gun", one can be sure that the government would have made its case long ago.
Instead, we are likely to get conclusions based on "inference", and as is typical of our government in this day and age, we are unlikely to get the raw data by which they "infer" their conclusions.
The "case" the government is likely to make will be gussied up with pretty pink ribbons and bows; all substituting for "facts" the government either does not have or "facts" the government chooses to link together where no explanation will be forthcoming on just how those links could be connected.
Perhaps I am being too hopeful or even naive, but I expect there to be serious scrutiny focused on this subject. If not by the few parts of the MSM remaining who still believe in their craft (Hah!), it will certainly be undertaken by the blogosphere!
I really applaud your call Glenn for a serious Congressional investigation. Given the timing of the political season however, I suspect that if a Congressional investigation is to occur, it is not likely to be until after the 1st of the year. Electioneering takes precedence almost everything else in the life of politicians.
