By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A powerful bi-partisan House committee is investigating serious flaws found in FBI labs, McClatchy reports. Leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voiced “grave concern” about recent discoveries that the FBI came to erroneous conclusions on hair analysis that ended up being far from perfect. “The scope of this…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By the FBI’s account, the anthrax case that triggered a wave of panic in this nation in 2001 with the death of five people, has been solved. But not all are as convinced as the FBI that the real culprit is government scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide in July 2008…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ernest Reith has been named associate executive assistant director of the FBI’s Science and Technology Branch. The FBI said Reith started his career in 1985 as a regional analyst at the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) in St. Louis, Missouri “where he developed and maintained geospatial intelligence databases of the…
Suspect Bruce Ivins Bruce Ivins was named the sole suspect, but not everyone is convinced of that. The question is will the review of the science in the case shed some light on Ivins? It would be nice if it did. By Dan Vergano USA TODAY WASHINGTON — A year and a day after the…
