Postal Workers Complain of Cold Anthrax Case

U.S. Postal Service workers expressed frustration Tuesday that the FBI investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks has not resulted in any convictions, The Times of Trenton reported (see GSN, Feb. 23).

“We are here for one reason:  for closure and justice,” said Les Cohen, New Jersey branch president of the National Association of Postal Supervisors, speaking a Princeton Borough press conference with U.S. Representative Rush Holt (D-N.J.).  “All I ask is that the FBI do the job and get this taken care of so we can all rest easy.”

Anthrax-laden mail killed five and sickened 17 in late 2001.  New Jersey postal facilities processed some of the lethal letters.

Holt repeated earlier calls for the FBI to brief Congress on the investigation, requests that have been rejected (see GSN, Dec. 13, 2006).

“Three dozen bipartisan members of the House and the Senate have asked for briefings so that we (Congress) can do our oversight role.  Despite all of that, we have been stonewalled,” Holt said (Robert Stern, The Times of Trenton, April 11).

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