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UPDATED: Report Says Army Could Have “Prevented” Anthrax Attacks in 2001 and Psychiatric Records Support FBI Findings That Bruce Ivins “Was Responsible”

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for more on the anthrax controversy. A court-ordered report by the Expert Behavorial Analysis Panel concluded the U.S. Army could have “anticipated” and “prevented” the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, and that a review of psychiatric records of suspect Bruce Ivins “does support the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)determination that he…

Washington Post Editorial Calls For Congressional Commission to Review Anthrax Investigation

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By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — RESOLUTION OF THE 2001 anthrax attacks continues to prove elusive. The Justice Department and the FBI identified Maryland scientist Bruce E. Ivins as having single-handedly carried out the attacks that killed five people and seriously sickened 17 others. The department was on the verge of seeking an…

Sen. Kennedy’s Office Manager Convicted of Stealing More than $75,000

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A former office manager for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy could be off to prison. A federal jury in Washington on Tuesday convicted Ngozi T. Pole, 40,of Waldorf, Md., of stealing more than $75,000 by paying himself unauthorized bonuses, the Justice Department said. Specifically, he was convicted of five…

Secret Service Employee Dies While Fighting a Fire in Baltimore County

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An Emergency Services specialist for U.S. Secret Service died Wednesday while fighting a four-alarm fire as a Lutherville, Md., volunteer firefighter in Baltimore County. Mark G. Falkenhan, 43, a four year employee of the Secret Service, died in a blaze, which was called in as a kitchen fire around…

Fed Agents Raid Suburban D.C. Home of ex-National Archives Employee

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Marshals assisted federal agents in a raid earlier this week at the suburban Washington home of a man who had retired from the National Archives, the website TBD reported. The raid, which resulted in the seizure of materials, came in wake of a report that cited “significant weaknesses”…

U.S. Marshal Service Admin. Officer Admits to Stealing $104,000

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Marshals Service administrative officer in Washington responsible for payroll matters pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing $104,000 in government funds, the Justice Department announced. Sno H. Rush, 40, of Upper Marlboro, Md., worked as an administrative officer for the Marshals Service in D.C. Superior…

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Feds Say U.S. Soldier Pimped Hookers From His Md. Apartment

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By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Craig Allen Corey II was doing a lot more than soldiering when he was based at Fort Meade, Md. Federal authorities say the Army soldier was running a prostitution and drug trafficking ring from his apartment in Millersville, Md., a small town outside Baltimore, and advertising the…

Scientist Tells Panel Dr. Ivins is Not the Anthrax Killer

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The killer anthrax case is not dead — at least in some circles. The New York Times reports that a former Army microbiologist Henry S. Heine told a National Academy of Sciences panel on Thursday that his colleague Bruce E. Ivins could not have produced the deadly anthrax spores,…