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'Move along, nothing to see here,' says FBI on anthrax attacks

Pat Leahy, one of the US senators targeted in the 2001 anthrax attacks, made this shocking declaration yesterday that he doesn't believe Bruce Ivins, the scientist blamed for the attacks who committed suicide earlier this year, acted alone:"If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people," Leahy told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at a hearing yesterday. "I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others who can be charged with murder."Noting that GOP senator and former prosecutor Arlen Specter joined Leahy in aggressively discounting the FBIs claims, telling Mueller that the case wouldn't pass muster in a criminal trial, Glenn Greenwald at Salon summed up the import of the hearing: The bottom line is that it is quite extraordinary that the FBI has claimed it has identified with certainty the sole culprit in the anthrax attacks, but so many key Senators, from both parties, simply don't believe it, and are saying so explicitly...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).