Friday, August 8, 2008

The pat ending to the anthrax mailings

How convenient is this? On Wednesday the government released a raft of documents concerning their case against Bruce Ivins. The documents purportedly detail the government's strong but circumstantial case against Ivins and show him to be the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

So - let me get this straight. A mere week after the only suspect in the case commits suicide, the government handily wraps up its case, producing evidence that took seven years to gather and yet still is only circumstantial. And although this evidence is far from a slam-dunk, the government still is able to neatly assure us that Ivins was working alone.

Well. If that isn't the prettiest outcome wrapped up in the neatest bow, I don't know what is.

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