The FBI has admitted that it has no case against Ivins.
As summarized in an article today in the Washington
Post:
The FBI has had a difficult time making its case to a skeptical
public and scientific community. A hair sample snagged from a Princeton,
N.J., mailbox linked to the attacks turned out not to match that
of Ivins.
Some Congressional critics have questioned whether one man could
really have carried out the elaborate attacks.
But FBI officials continue to press their case.
"I don't think we're ever going to be able to put the suspicions
to bed," said Vahid Majidi of the FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction
Directorate. "There's always going to be a spore on the grassy
knoll."
This is very telling.
The FBI could have said "we will prove to Congress, the scientific
community and the public that only Ivins could have done it".
But they didn't.
Instead, the FBI is trying to discredit the many top anthrax scientists
who question the government's case against Ivins by using the "grassy
knoll" conspiracy-theory smear.
If they had a case against Ivins, they would have presented it, instead
of resorting to Bill O'Reilly style smear tactics.
"As always, in Establishment
Media World, nothing is more insane or radical than refusing to believe
every word the Government says. Even after Iraqi mushroom clouds and
the whole litany of Government falsehoods, the establishment hallmark
of Seriousness and Sanity is accepting the Government's word. When
it says Iraq was behind the attacks, then it was. When they said Hatfill
was the culprit, he was. Now that they say that Ivins is, he is, and
only "conspiracy theorists" -- comparable to those who disbelieve
we landed on the moon -- would question that or demand to see the
actual evidence. The FBI is relying, understandably so, on their mindless
allies in the media to depict its case against Ivins as so airtight
that no real investigation is necessary."
- Glenn Greenwald
