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More diggs on 2001 Anthrax attack
When I was in a biosecurity class a couple years ago talking about the anthrax case, I had found an article from Johnathan B Tucker, US chemical and biological weapons expert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_B._Tucker
The FBI honed in on Bruce Ivins, a USAMRIID researcher with access to anthrax, and Bruce had "committed suicide" before the investigation concluded. He questioned the FBI's narrative that it was Bruce, implying that anyone with basic tools and techniques could produce anthrax, and died shortly after writing the article. 56 years old and no cause of death released.
>Editor's note: Jonathan Tucker died suddenly in late July, just days after submitting this article for publication. Jonathan was a valued member of the editorial board of the Nonproliferation Review.
>Conclusion: Although the FBI's circumstantial case against Bruce Ivins will never satisfy hard-core skeptics and conspiracy theorists, the mosaic of evidence is fairly convincing when viewed as a whole. At the same time, it is far from certain that a federal prosecutor could have persuaded a jury of Ivins's guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt." If the FBI is correct and Ivins did not need specialized equipment and know-how to make the highly refined preparation of dry B. anthracis spores that was mailed to the two senators, then the security implications are deeply troubling. In that case, producing a potent biological weapon agent involves far fewer technical hurdles than is generally believed, making this lethal technology relatively accessible to those with malicious intent.
The site is no longer up, but luckily it was archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20160506152445/http://wmdjunction.com/110822_fbi_anthrax.htm