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Alberto Gonzales stonewalling Congress on supersecret FBI Anthrax investigation

Only Democrats were targeted by the US army strain bioweapon
Holt renews call for anthrax probe update
Posted by Thre Times of Trenton April 10, 2007 5:19PM
Categories: News
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- U.S. Rep. Rush Holt Tuesday afternoon renewed his call for the FBI to brief Congress on the status of its investigation into the still unsolved mailed anthrax attacks of 2001 and to explain why no one has been prosecuted in the case yet.

"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, D-12, Hopewell Township, said during a news conference with various U.S. Postal Service union leaders next to a couple of postal drop boxes.

A different drop box at another location on Nassau Street had tested positive for anthrax in August 2002, almost a year after the mailed anthrax attacks from the fall of 2001, which killed five people, sickened at least 17 others and terrified the nation. That tainted drop box was taken out of service in August 2002.

Four anthrax-laced letters postmarked Sept. 18, 2001 were routed through the Hamilton Post Office on Route 130, which serves as the Postal Service's regional distribution center for the greater Trenton-Princeton area.

See Wednesday's Times for more details.

Contributed by Robert Stern
 
 

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