I think we need some of the CSI’s on TV to tackle the unsolved murders by anthrax from five years ago.

I’ve written about this mess for years and rightly have pestered the FBI for their handling of this case. They have left far too many questions unanswered. Two men, Dr. Hatfill and Dr. Berry have had their professional lives ruined. Millions of dollars have been spent on preventing another such attack, and on thousands and thousands of false alarms.

Here’s what I wrote in 2003.
In addition, the CDC and the FBI have failed to explain the isolated and unrelated anthrax deaths of Kathy T. Nguyen and Ottilie Lundgren. Both ladies had no direct exposure to any of the letters. The best notion that the experts can come up with is that they were exposed by mail that had been exposed to the original letters. Nonsense! The limited number of actual infections due to direct exposure to the letters suggests that the anthrax was not that infectious. To then suggest that two people, and only two people were fatally exposed to infectious levels of anthrax spores through second or third hand exposure is laughable. If there were enough anthrax spores in the general mail to kill these two women, how come no one else got infected? Surely there had to be dozens of immunocompromised individuals, easily infected, exposed to the same quantities of spores as these two ladies. No, there is far more to this story, and the FBI may have thoroughly mucked up the trail, and failed in its investigation.

Five people were murdered by whoever did this. I think it’s time for the FBI to make public much of its investigation so that we, their employers, can be assured that every effort has been made to find the killer(s). The many questions around this case need to be answered for us all. Did one of the 9/11 hijackers get treated for anthrax in Florida? Where did the anthrax spores originate and were any of the samples “weaponized”? Why have all foreign sources and sponsors been ruled out? How exactly did Kathy T. Nguyen and Ottilie Lundgren become infected without anyone else becoming ill?

It was 2001. The CIA let us down. The FBI let us down. Is this yet another example of CYA in action?