consistent statements?
Dateline, November 2, 2002. One year after the attacks:
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/fbisecretlyrecreate.html
FBI investigators and federal scientists have been secretly working for months to replicate the type of anthrax used in last year's deadly mail attacks, as part of a previously undisclosed strategy designed to determine precisely how the spores were manufactured, officials said yesterday.
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who revealed the experiments in remarks to reporters here, said that using such "reverse engineering" could help investigators narrow the list of possible suspects.
"We're replicating the way or ways it might be manufactured, but it is not an easy task," Mueller said. "We are going into new territory in some areas."
Dateline September 29, 2003, 2 years after attacks:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-29-anthrax_x.htm?POE=click-refer
WASHINGTON — Two years after the nation's deadly anthrax attacks, the FBI still has not been able to re-create the process the killer used to produce the substance sent through the U.S. mail, a top FBI official said Monday.
But Michael Mason, the new assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, said testing has helped investigators "narrow" some aspects of the investigation and convinced them that the culprit has special expertise.
"We would not have that if reverse engineering had completely failed to provide us with any information or valuable leads," Mason said.
Dateline September 28, 2006, 5 years after attacks:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_anthrax_2
"The FBI and its partners in this investigation have never been under any misconceptions about the character of the anthrax used in the attacks," Assistant FBI Director Eleni P. Kalisch wrote Holt on Thursday. "On the contrary, since the earliest months of this investigation, we have consulted with the world's foremost scientific experts on anthrax and relevant bio-forensic sciences, both inside and outside the FBI. While there may have been erroneous media reports about the character of the 2001 anthrax, the FBI's investigation has never been guided by such reports."
If the statement from Ms. Kalisch bore any reflection with reality, don't you think the statements from year 1 and year 2 would more accurately read:
Year 1:
"We're replicating the way or ways it might be manufactured, but it is not an easy task," Mueller said. "We are going into new territory in some areas."
should have read:
"We're replicating the way or ways it might be manufactured. This is a relatively easy task since the anthrax was just pure spores and is routinley made by microbiologists," Mueller said. "We don't have to go into new territory or anything"
Year 2:
Two years after the nation's deadly anthrax attacks, the FBI still has not been able to re-create the process the killer used to produce the substance sent through the U.S. mail, a top FBI official said Monday.
should have read:
Two years after the nation's deadly anthrax attacks, the FBI has been able to re-create the process the killer used to produce the substance sent through the U.S. mail, a top FBI official said Monday. It was straightforward to do this, since no special additives were used
You are just picking out the words which support your beliefs, while ignoring the facts which do NOT support your beliefs.
The first link you cite also includes this:
Some experts suggested that federal investigators, who have never coped with an anthrax agent as sophisticated as the material recovered from letters to Sens. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), may be feeling their way through the science to discover how difficult the agent would be to make.
"They'd probably want to look at several methods of doing it -- try to make it several different ways to reproduce the end result," said David Franz, head of the Chemical and Biological Defense Division of the Southern Research Institute and former commander of the the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the nation's principal biodefense research center. "It doesn't seem like an unreasonable idea."
The second article you cite includes this:
Scientists said Monday that it is unclear what Mason's revelation means. They say much depends on whether the FBI is attempting an identical re-creation.
There are many ways to create the powders in the anthrax letters. So, you have to duplicate the powder exactly if you want to create evidence for use in court. That means you also have to duplicate the lab contamination.
When you have to distort and leave out facts to make your case, that just shows how WRONG you are.
Ed