FBI closing in

 

 

BBC, 19 Dec 2001:  For five weeks now (=Nov 14), the FBI has been working openly on the premise that the terrorist is home-grown.  Last week it was acknowledged that the US military has in recent years been making weaponised anthrax, of a type that matches the anthrax used to lace the lethal letters.

The Atlantic, June, 2002:  In November (2001), the FBI issued a suspect profile identifying the likely anthrax attacker as a single adult male, probably an American with a scientific background, lab experience, poor social skills, and a grudge. *

Some people - I - was one of them - viewed this interpretation with skepticism.  What would be the motive?  Why the timing so close to September 11?  A number of analysts, including David Tell in a useful article in The Weekly Standard on April 29, have subsequently cast doubt on the disgruntled-scientist hypothesis,

 

 

* FBI (Mueller) suspected it was a homegrown scientist from beginning, knew from Nov 14.