You needn’t go to the oddsmakers in Vegas to predict whether the anthrax case will be reopened for a fresh examination.
Just ask Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.).
Grassley, one of several politicians who have been skeptical of the FBI findings that government scientist Bruce Ivins sent the letters, said it would take a powerful grassroots movement or startling new evidence to reopen the probe, according to an article authored by Greg Gordon of McClatchy Newspapers, Stephen Engelberg of ProPublica and Mike Wiser of PBS’ Frontline.
The FBI and the Justice Department have insisted that Ivins was the culprit, citing a collection of facts and circumstances. Ivins committed suicide in July 2008, shortly before the feds planned to charge him in the 2001 mailings that killed five and sickened 17 others.
Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in the article that adamant opposition from the FBI and Justice Department is likely to block further inquiry
Even if he were the committee chairman, Grassley said, according to the article: “I would question my capability of raising enough heat (to reopen the case) when you’re up against the FBI. And I’ve been up against the FBI.”
His comments came after PBS’ Frontline, McClatchy and ProPublica, in a joint investigation, cited evidence in a lengthy article that challenged some of the government’s scientific and circumstantial evidence.
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