Case Closed: ... why the FBI failed to solve the 2001 anthrax case - Couverture souple

Weinstein, Lewis M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1475131801 ISBN 13 : 9781475131802

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

In August 2008 the FBI and DOJ announced that Dr. Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax mailings which killed five people and sent the country into chaos. This was particularly convenient for the FBI since Dr. Ivins had committed suicide a few days earlier and there would be no need to prove any of their assertions at trial. The FBI said the case would soon be closed.It seemed to me even from what was said in the 2008 announcement that the FBI's case was pitifully weak, and subsequent questions and reviews have made that even more obvious. If Ivins was the sole perpetrator, he would have to have carried out a series of activities in preparing the powdered anthrax and mailing it. Yet there are no witnesses, no physical evidence, and an impossible timeline.But the most telling shortcoming in the FBI's case is the scientific evidence which they said was the crux of their case. It turns out that there is no scientific evidence that proves Dr. Ivins was the perpetrator, or even that he was involved at all. This was the conclusion, surprising to the FBI, of an independent review of the science used by the FBI conducted by the National Academies of Science (NAS).Congressmen and Senators, journalists and scientists, have called for a broader investigation into the FBI's investigation and conclusions. At this writing, the the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, often called the "congressional watchdog," is conducting such an investigation. It has long seemed to me that there are only three possible explanations for the FBI's failed case against Dr. ivins ...1. The FBI has more evidence against Dr. Ivins which they have not, for whatever reason, disclosed. POSSIBLE BUT NOT LIKELY2. The FBI, despite a 7 year investigation at a cost of $100 million, has not solved the case and does not know who carried out the anthrax attacks. EVEN LESS LIKELY3. The FBI does know who the perpetrators were, it wasn't Dr. Ivins, and the FBI is keeping the truth from the American people. MOST LIKELYUntil the full story is known, we are left to speculation. As a novelist, I chose to express my speculations by writing a fictional account of what might have happened, premised on a re-investigation of the FBI's case by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). My novel was published in early 2009.Since then, I have started a blog ...(http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/) ... which has become, in the course of 1200 posts, almost 15,000 comments, and over 240,000 "clicks," a major source of information on the case. It is my opinion that every single element of the FBI's case against Dr. Ivins has been thoroughly demolished on my blog site. There is also a significant amount of information on the blog that points to an al Qaeda connection to the anthrax attacks, a possibility I first put forward in my novel.Case Closed does not purport to present the truth about the anthrax attacks. I don't claim to know that truth. It does, however, offer an alternative to the flawed FBI explanation, an alternative which a highly placed source in the U.S. Intelligence Community said was actually quite plausible. And it raises questions that America must have answered.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1475131801
• ISBN 13: 9781475131802
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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