Holt: FBI anthrax investigation is itself subject of probe

[maddezmom]

Source: NJ.com

After years of questioning the conclusion and methods of an FBI investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and sickened dozens of others, Rep. Rush Holt (D-Hopewell) announced yesterday that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is opening an inquiry into the matter.

Holt, along with a handful of other legislators, had sent a letter to the GAO in May requesting an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the case. The FBI officially closed the case in February after concluding in 2008 that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a former biodefense scientist, was the sole culprit in the attacks.

Ivins, a resident of Frederick, Md., committed suicide shortly before government investigators planned to formally file charges against him.

“In the wake of the bungled FBI investigation, all of us — but especially the families of the victims of the anthrax attacks — deserve credible answers about how the attacks happened and whether the case is really closed,” Holt said in a statement yesterday.


Read more: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2010/09/holt_fbi_anthrax_investigation.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Interesting.

[Demeter]

2. What? Blow the Cover on BFEE and CheneyCo?

This I've got to see.

[deminks]

3. I applaud their efforts.

I look forward to any attempt at the truth.

[indimuse]

4. hmmmm..

knr!

[xchrom]

5. I would think so. That was pretty much a cluster fuck. Nt

[RC]

6. Maybe this could trickle down to other things, like maybe

stuff like, you know, how the WTC's came to come down? Ya think?

[chimpymustgo]

20. If only. Too many people don't want to KNOW the truth, or know, but fear the implications of

revealing it.

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!

Maybe after we're all dead....

[wildbilln864]

7. k&r! nt

[sofa king]

8. The attacks folded up like an operation, and so did the investigation.

Most of you still don't want to face the ugly truth that those attacks were conducted with the foreknowledge of members of the Bush Administration, but they approached this issue with the same cover-up stance that they approached the lead up to the Iraq war, the theft of both elections, torture, and 9/11.

It used to be that when our government officials were caught covering up, it was assumed that the cover-up concealed greater crimes. It was only with the Bush Administration that "not enough information to convict" was counted as an exonerating circumstance.

And just look what happened as soon as that did: The worst terror attacks ever in America, the worst biological attacks ever in America, a war started on false pretenses, a global torture, assassination and kidnapping campaign, two stolen elections and a trail of dead bodies one million deep.

If we had sacked the lot of them when one of the very first cover-ups became evident--this one--then some of the rest might not have happened.

[valerief]

9. +666 trillion

[Lost4words]

11. yes they did and the sheeple got right in line and gave dimson all he wanted

Democrats included with only a very few exceptions. There is no justice in this hollowed out shell of a democracy.

[Vincardog]

16. +666 trillion

[chimpymustgo]

21. Dick Cheney overseeing war games with NORAD on 9/11??? It really wouldn't take that much digging

to get to the truth.

[leftstreet]

24. +1

[molly77]

35. Do you ever wonder what would

have happened if WE as a country had protested the stealing of the 2000 election? MSM would not have covered it. Seemed like there was coverage of bush trying to privatize social security. Lots of coverage of town hall meetings and older people voicing disapproval.The stealing of two elections was not even allowed discussion on a lot of democratic websites. Certainly not given priority. This has led to our country has gone to overt fascism. Nov. is coming up with electronic voting machines where many more will be stolen.Still no MSM coverage of all the problems .WE interfered with elections all over the world. Mexico comes to mind. The elected president wanted a living wage and retirement benefits.He was replaced with a tool. Bushco kidnapped the democratically elected president of Haiti. Now WE are trying to topple Chavez.

[Bitwit1234]

10. I think the FBI and the CIA is so infested with right wing do nothings

that all they can do is the old Bush dodge "Cover Your Ass". Since they couldn't find what really happened, and we all know it was a right wing job, they made up an answer to get it off the books.

[Lost4words]

12. with the help of their DLC conspirator's nt

[EFerrari]

33. They've pretty much always been that way. Mueller's term is almost up.

There could be a shake up at FBI but I doubt it.

[OnyxCollie]

13. K&R. nt

[ixion]

14. The path goes back to the New American Century mob

and it's evil minions, in my opinion.

[Vincardog]

17. Do you think that one 'Pearl Harbor like event' was not enough for them? John Stewart doesn't think

9/11 was an inside job.

[Name removed]

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[Chef Eric]

32. So, you can't spell "Mossad," but you think they're responsible for 911? Fascinating.

Why do you think that al-Quaeda is a less likely culprit than the Mossad?

Didn't the USS Cole bombing convince you of al-Quaeda's motives? Or do you think the Mossad was behind that too?

[molly77]

36. Remember all the stolen weaponry in Iraq?

You don't think it went to our side do you? The four blackwater contractors who were murdered in Fallujah..which resulted in genocide? Their family members brought a law suit which was about their being led into an ambush.We have been working both ends against the middle. The middle being US. We are caught in a cross fire of corporations starting illegal wars ..US paying for it.We are broke now, over a million people killed in Iraq and our MSM is still calling anyone who fights back an insurgent.

[Chef Eric]

39. You are going off on a tangent, so I will steer you back.

My point was that it is wrong to suggest that Israeli agents were behind 911 if you don't have any EVIDENCE.

Do you care to dispute that point?

[ixion]

23. For a group of thug Disaster Capitalists who seek Pax Americana

I don't think you could have enough such events to satisfy them.

[entanglement]

22. The PNAC / Neocon mob has just melted away into the darkness, hasn't it?

[yellowwood]

37. No

You can bet that they're behind the tea party group somewhere. Anything to make trouble and get rid of Obama.
And you can still find some of them on Fox, if you can stand to watch it.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

15. Tick, tock

Ten years later. *sigh*
The wheels on the bus go round n round, round n round, round n round...

[defendandprotect]

18. Ah, yes, if we begin investigating government cover-ups that could take a decade or so--!!

[Supersedeas]

48. It all depends on who is appointed to do the investigating--how deligent is the GAO now?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. The Bush administration organized the anthrax

it was planted by their people.

[tomp]

26. obama/holder=fail on accountability for bush/cheney high crimes.

100% unacceptable. accessory after the fact.

[MickeyD]

30. I agree with you.

That's very frustrating.

[EFerrari]

34. Nancy Pelosi went awol. It was really her responsibility

much more than Obama's. She took an oath, too.

[tomp]

40. you mean on impeachment? totally agree there.

democratic party leadership =fail

[EFerrari]

45. Impeachment was one item but Congress has a general oversight duty, doesn't it?

It's their job to hold the Executive accountable. On paper it is, any way.

[tomp]

47. so you're saying obama and holder are not responsible...

...because pelosi is?

[hlthe2b]

27. Stretch Dick Cheney out onto the "rack" and question him...

he knows...:eyes:

[MickeyD]

31. Yes he does.

What a disgusting man.

[mymomwasright]

28. Slash and Burn!!

Muaahhhhahhahh!! :evilgrin:

[earcandle]

29. Tighten UP! Archie Bell and the Drells would be saying...

[fasttense]

38. But President Obama will actually use his veto pen against this investigation.

"Officials with the Obama administration earlier this year said the president would veto any such legislation, saying it would be redundant in the wake of the FBI and NAS investigations."

So, don't expect any accountability.

[Lost4words]

41. just one of many obama failures! nt

[wildbilln864]

42. and kick! nt

[Solly Mack]

43. K&R

[Nevernose]

44. I'm not a "conspiracy" kind of guy

In fact, I find most conspiracy theories insulting to my intelligence, and often very harmful to both individuals and society. But there is no f-ing way a Ph.D microbiologist misspelled "penicillin."

I know that there's some wacky theory about it being part of some secret code, but that seriously stretches credulity. It's some Nostradamus, Bible-code bullshit that would have old Occam rolling over in his grave.

[EFerrari]

46. Nobody who knows Bruce Ivins believes he did it.

No scientist that doesn't work for the FBI believes he could do it. Even some of their own scientists say their science can't prove the case.

Their case is cr@p in the fine tradition of the Federal Bureau of Invention as Meryl Nass called them.