MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
It's always easy to wrap up blame for major national crimes on the Lee Harvey Oswald type of crazed 'lone gunman' suspect, particularly if the suspect is already dead and won't go to trial. Now the guilt or sole culpability of Bruce Ivins is being questioned by a panel of esteemed scientists:
Scientists’ Analysis Disputes F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and SCOTT SHANE
A decade after wisps of anthrax sent through the mail killed 5 people, sickened 17 others and terrorized the nation, biologists and chemists still disagree on whether federal investigators got the right man and whether the F.B.I.’s long inquiry brushed aside important clues. Now, three scientists argue that distinctive chemicals found in the dried anthrax spores — including the unexpected presence of tin — point to a high degree of manufacturing skill, contrary to federal reassurances that the attack germs were unsophisticated. The scientists make their case in a coming issue of the Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense.....