New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case

sciencehabit writes "A Science Magazine investigation uses clues from a key document unveiled last week to reconstruct the trail that led the FBI to Bruce Ivins. Among the revelations: Anthrax fingerprinting was not critical to the investigation, as many reports have suggested. Rather, brute-force genetic sequencing, with the help of the J. Craig Venter Institute, helped crack the case. New potential motivations by Ivins are also revealed."

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Yeah, or, it might be that I (and the rest of America) had to make Steve Hatfill and Richard Jewell millionaires because these guys thought it would be great to make their lives hell by "leaking" to the press that they were being "investigated" when, in fact, they were being set up to take the fall. Given the record of these high-profile cases, there is *no* reason to believe that Ivins is the guy. His death was very convenient for the wrap-up that we're seeing now - "oh well, he's dead but we think he did it so we'll close this case. Say, anybody see the big game last night? is that Madonna over there?"