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Within less than 24 hours, we went from "a New Jersey mailbox used to send the anthrax was less than 100 yards away from a sorority for which Ivins harbored an intense life-long obsession" to "the mailbox was near a storage closet used by a sorority that Ivins used to frequent 27 years ago and by a specific chapter that Ivins appeared to have absolutely nothing to do with."
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This is what I don't understand: why would the FBI expose itself to the ridicule, derision and wrath that are clearly gathering against them in this case? I have trouble believing that the FBI is this incompetent and stupid. Keeping in mind that the FBI was "beaten up" by Bush and Cheney to lay blame for the 9/11 anthrax attacks on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, it is fair to speculate that Bush and Cheney, or their closest advisers, were behind the rush to make false accusations against Bruce Ivins, with the result of doing irreparable harm to the reputation of the FBI. We need an aggressive Congressional investigation to get to the bottom of this mess, and I am betting that high-level FBI officials can't wait to tell the truth about what really happened and who twisted their arms.
