Here is what Senator Leahy is told NPR last December:
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2006
The Anthrax Scare of 2001... Five Years Later.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6588682
Senators Grill FBI Head on Investigations, Priorities
All Things Considered, December 6, 2006
ARI SHAPIRO (NPR REPORTER)
For Repulican Charles Grassley of Iowa, the issue of the day was anthrax. Five years ago, anonymous letters containing anthrax spores killed five people. The mystery is unsolved. Grassley said despite his requests, it’s been three years since Congress was briefed.
SENATOR GRASSLEY
This investigation is one of the largest efforts in FBI history, I’m told. Congress has a right and a responsibility to get some detailed information about how all those resources are being used.
ARI SHAPIRO (NPR)
Mueller said the case is before a grand jury and any briefing could compromise the proceedings. Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont interjected,
SENATOR LEAHY
I avoided making many public comments about the anthrax case, especially on the five-year anniversary I might note at least two people who touched the envelope that I was supposed to open — died.
ARI SHAPIRO (NPR)
Leahy told Director Mueller,
SENATOR LEAHY
I’m not satisfied with this investigation. I’m not satisfied with the briefings I’ve had. I’m not satisfied with the information I’ve received on it.”
ARI SHAPIRO (NPR)
Leahy said he expects to ask the FBI more questions about the anthrax investigation once he becomes committee chair.
Question:
“Who Tried To Kill Pat Leahy With Anthrax And Why? “
(video of Specter, Gonzales and Leahy discussing matter; Gonzales referring to “very complex investigation” and Daschle referring to “tremendous resistance” to briefing; Specter discusses Committee’s oversight jurisdiction)
Answer:
US-based operatives of the Vanguards of Conquest, which is the military wing of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and led by Ayman Zawahiri. Members of the Egyptian Islamic Group also assisted (notably Mohammed Islambouli, who was subject of the CIA’s December 4, 1998 PDB to President Clinton on the planned attack on the US using aircraft and other means). Islambouli at one point was in a cell with KSM based in Doha, Qatar. He was head of Abdel-Rahman’s Services Organization in Peshawar until 1993, where he lived in a large house with Ayman, when he fled 100 miles west to a place in Afghanistan.
It was a lot like Schumer living with George Miller, but it was Ayman who never made his bed.