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Article: 'Spore on the Grassy Knoll'; The FBI's latest anthrax case revelations highlight the need for an independent review of the investigation.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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OFFICIALS AT the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented more
evidence this week that they say identifies Bruce E. Ivins as the
lone culprit in the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and
sickened 17 others. But even they acknowledged that the evidence is
unlikely to win over skeptics. "I don't think we're ever going to be
able to put the suspicions to bed," said Vahid Majidi of the FBI's
Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. "There's always going to be
a spore on the grassy knoll."
In fact, the FBI's latest disclosure raised more questions than
it answered. For example, the agency disclosed that in February
2002, Dr. Ivins provided a sample of anthrax from a flask in his lab ...
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