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Anthrax Mail Attack Investigation Continues
Investigators have traveled to three continents and conducted thousands of interviews in their search for those responsible for the 2001 anthrax mail attacks that killed five people, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, July 14). About 30 FBI agents and 13 postal investigators remain assigned to the “Amerithrax”case. Over 33 months, they have conducted more than 5,280 interviews and issued 4,480 grand jury subpoenas, according to the Post. “We are going through and doing what we have to do to bring it to a resolution,” said Michael Mason, head of the FBI Washington field office. “We are working on this as actively as we did Day One,” he added. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland remains a focus of the investigation. The laboratory could be the source of the anthrax, and former Fort Detrick scientist Steven Hatfill is still considered a “person of interest” in the investigation, sources told the Post. Investigators this year asked laboratory personnel about access to “hot suites” where work is done on anthrax and other biological agents, and whether they ever noticed employees doing unauthorized research on anthrax. Scientists with no connection to Fort Detrick are also being looked at in the investigation, sources said Work continues to trace the origin of the anthrax, but testing could take months and does not promise strong results, sources said (Allan Lengel, Washington Post, July 18).
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