Judge Unseals Anthrax Files

A U.S. federal judge today authorized the release of hundreds of pages of records from the FBI’s years-long investigation of the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Aug. 5).

District Judge Royce Lamberth unsealed at least 14 search warrants that targeted Bruce Ivins, a veteran microbiologist at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases who was considered the investigation’s prime suspect. He died last week in an apparent suicide. ...