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New Report Casts Doubt on FBI Anthrax Investigation
For a second time in three years, an independent inquiry has cast doubt on the genetic testing that the FBI said linked the main suspect to the 2001 attacks.
December 19, 2014
Exclusive: New Photos of Anthrax Suspect's Lab
Rarely seen photos -- obtained by FRONTLINE under the Freedom of Information Act -- of Dr. Bruce Ivins' office, locker, the hot suite and the machine the FBI says he could have used to make the dried anthrax spores used in the attacks.
January 30, 2012
Government Settles Anthrax Suit for $2.5 million
While denying negligence by one of its premier bio-weapons labs, the government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a wrongful death suit filed by survivors of the first fatality victim of the deadly 2001 anthrax mail attacks, court papers revealed Tuesday.
November 29, 2011
The FBI Responds To "The Anthrax Files"
After editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post called for new investigations into the 2001 anthrax attacks, the FBI issues a statement defending its conclusion that Army scientist Bruce E. Ivins was behind the letters that killed five people.
October 28, 2011
Live Chat: Inside the FBI's Anthrax Investigation
Read the full transcript of our live chat with "Anthrax Files" reporters Mike Wiser (FRONTLINE), Stephen Engleberg (ProPublica), and Greg Gordon (McClatchy).
October 12, 2011
New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI's Case Against Anthrax Suspect
The FBI still insists it had the right man in Bruce Ivins, an Army biologist who committed suicide in 2008 before being charged with the mailings that killed five people. But an in-depth look by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and McClatchy found new evidence challenging the government's claims that the case against Ivins is ironclad.
October 10, 2011
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