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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 07:54 AM
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Justice Department lawyers contradict FBI findings in anthrax case
Shortly after Ivins committed suicide in 2008, federal investigators announced that they'd identified him as the mass murderer who sent the letters to members of Congress and the news media. The case was circumstantial, with federal officials arguing that the scientist had the means, motive and opportunity to make the deadly powder at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md.

Now, however, Justice Department lawyers have acknowledged in court papers that the sealed area in Ivins' lab — the so-called hot suite — didn't contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that floated through congressional buildings and post offices in the fall of 2001.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/07/18/117806/justice-department-lawyers-contradict.html#ixzz1SYUgUmM5
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 07:57 AM
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1. Interesting. K&R n/t
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 09:15 AM
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2. They tried to blame their first victim and he managed proved himself indecent.
So their second victim conveniently suicided himself. Why don't we water board Cheney and Rumsfeld to find out the truth here.
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