Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media

by Erik Larson | August 19, 2008 at 10:48 am | 111 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

Glenn Greenwald has been blogging hard questions about the Anthrax investigation for some time now, including about ABC's reporting of a supposed Iraq link soon after the attack happened, based on leaks from 4 government scientists who apparently were all lying. In this article he reviews some of the holes in the FBI's supposedly "beyond a reasonable doubt" case that Bruce Ivins is the sole Anthrax killer, as well as the media coverage. Holes include the FBI's changing of their timeline after bloggers noted that Ivins couldn't have mailed the letters when they said he did, because of the postmark date. That the FBI is forced to change their story, even though the corporate media mindlessly and unquestioningly regurgiated the info, is testimony to the power of crowd-powered media, as Greenwald notes in his criticism of both the media and the FBI's "evidence" presented thus far.

The more that is revealed about the FBI's still largely-secret case against Bruce Ivins, the more doubts that are raised about whether their accusations are true. A particularly vivid episode illustrating how shoddy the FBI's case seems to be occurred in the last several days.

Some of Greenwald's other articles on the Anthrax Investigation:

The FBI's selective release of documents in the anthrax case

Additional key facts re: the anthrax investigation

Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation