The FBI has shown incompetence before. I believe that they are trying for a record. How long has the FBI been investigating the anthrax problem? Have they done anything right so far? Sounds as if they wouldn’t have had a case against the latest victim of their accusations if he had stayed alive.
“Have they done anything right so far?”
Well, they’ve adjusted the “different strain” story.
First it was a “different sample”. Then Ivins’ lawyer said it was a misunderstanding on one side or the other about the “form” of the germs. Then Rep. Holt said that too, and it was the correct sample. Now it is said, yes, it was the first sample was a correct, but in the wrong form, but when in the right form the second time, the it was a sample from a different preparation.
Maybe the latter is correct. Why a different sample? A lab mistake? Ivins or the FBI? Were many there many different samples to be confused? We know here there are at least two. But they admit the first time Ivins was right. Is that a sign of guilt?
He gave investigators a second sample of anthrax from his lab in April 2002 to comply with standards in a subpoena issued in the case. But that sample contained a different strain than what he submitted two months earlier in what prosecutors call an attempt to deceive or confuse investigators.It is possible this strange quote is unique. I find similar in no article from today. It is possible this is a carry over from earlier stories, and the scientists said nothing about a "Second strain" today. Which makes it only worse. Still open.