The insider security threat

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342852,00.html

FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks
Friday, March 28, 2008
By Catherine Herridge and Ian McCaleb

WASHINGTON -  The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the
6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least
three of those suspects are linked to the Army's bioweapons research
facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.

Among the pool of suspects are three scientists - a former deputy commander,
a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist - linked to the research
facility, known as USAMRIID.

...

But in an e-mail obtained by FOX News, scientists at Fort Detrick openly
discussed how the anthrax powder they were asked to analyze after the
attacks was nearly identical to that made by one of their colleagues.

"Then he said he had to look at a lot of samples that the FBI had prepared
... to duplicate the letter material," the e-mail reads. "Then the
bombshell. He said that the best duplication of the material was the stuff
made by [name redacted]. He said that it was almost exactly the same . his
knees got shaky and he sputtered, 'But I told the General we didn't make
spore powder!'"


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