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FBI Refuses Lawmaker’s Request for Anthrax Briefing
The FBI yesterday refused a request to brief the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on the status of the bureau’s investigation into the 2001 anthrax mail attacks. Committee member Rush Holt (D-N.J.) had asked for a classified briefing after news reports indicated that the FBI had misunderstood the nature of the anthrax used in the attacks (see GSN, Sept. 28). Citing leaks that followed past Capitol Hill briefings, and questioning the committee’s jurisdiction over a criminal investigation, Assistant FBI Director Eleni Kalisch refused Holt’s request in a letter yesterday. She also refuted the news reports. “The FBI and its partners in this investigation have never been under any misconceptions about the character of the anthrax used in the attacks,” she said in the letter. “On the contrary, since the earliest months of this investigation, we have consulted with the world’s foremost scientific experts on anthrax and relevant bioforensic sciences, both inside and outside the FBI. While there may have been erroneous media reports about the character of the 2001 anthrax, the FBI’s investigation has never been guided by such reports” (Associated Press/International Herald Tribune, Sept. 29).
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