Richard Lambert ... the former FBI lead investigator on the anthrax investigation, says the bureau has tried "to railroad the prosecution of Ivins" and that "a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence" regarding Dr. Ivins remains secret.
Congressman Rush Holt ... There were no fingerprints, no witness accounts, no physical evidence linking Ivins to the incident. We need a blue-ribbon commission to review the anthrax attack and the FBI's flawed investigation.
Senator Patrick Leahy (one of the two Senate targets of the attack) ... does not believe the FBI's case against Ivins.
Senator Chuck Grassley ... "There are no more excuses for avoiding an independent review and assessment of how the FBI handled its investigation in the anthrax case.
Senator Arlen Specter ... the FBI they could never have obtained a conviction against Ivins in court based on the case they have made public.
Does fiction sometimes foretell reality? It certainly seems that way in Lewis M. Weinstein's fictionalized story of an anthrax scare ... a thriller that seems to track closely with real-life events, even as they unfold today. This updated edition of Case Closed follows Weinstein's passion for seeing the truth come out in the FBI's handling of the Amerithrax Case.
