{"id":187851,"date":"2011-02-17T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/17\/nothing-to-see-here-move-along-6\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:36:00","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-move-along-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/17\/nothing-to-see-here-move-along-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to See Here, Move Along\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences has reviewed the FBI&#8217;s forensic claims regarding Bruce Ivins and the Anthrax mailing investigation, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/science-review-cast-doubt-on-some-evidence-in-fbis-anthrax-investigation\">politely called bullsh%$ on this<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The National Academy of Sciences is just out with a 190-page review [1] of the forensic science behind the FBI&#8217;s investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks. The takeaway: Some of the evidence cited to identify Army microbiologist Bruce E. Ivins as the perpetrator isn&#8217;t as conclusive as the FBI has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the panel of experts said it &#8220;did not definitively demonstrate&#8221; that the source of the anthrax was spores taken from a flask controlled by Ivins, a microbiologist who did vaccine research at the U.S. Army Institute for Medical Research of Infection Diseases in Maryland. Nor did scientific data generated for the FBI &#8220;rule out other sources&#8221; for the anthrax, the panel&#8217;s report says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering the record on the investigation, the you can review their tactics to the prior &#8220;person of interest&#8221; in this situation (Stephen Hatfill, who was exonerated and received a cash settlement) and be rather surprised that <b>he<\/b> didn&#8217;t top himself as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences has reviewed the FBI&#8217;s forensic claims regarding Bruce Ivins and the Anthrax mailing investigation, and has politely called bullsh%$ on this: The National Academy of Sciences is just out with a 190-page review [1] of the forensic science behind the FBI&#8217;s investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks. The takeaway: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1241,972,1041,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioweapons","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}