BACK IN APRIL, having marinated myself in a decade’s worth of published microbiology research and whatnot, I wrote a longish story for the Standard expressing near total bewilderment about the FBI’s investigation of last fall’s anthrax terrorism. Specifically, I couldn’t understand why the Bureau seemed so strongly inclined to the view that its suspect was a lone American scientist–and so little inclined to take seriously the possibility that those mail-borne murders might somehow have been connected with the hijackings of September 11.
Well, three months have gone by now, and even though solid evidence seems ever more elusive the FBI says it still prefers the domestic terrorism scenario–far and away–over any and all competitors. And while I still have (all) my doubts, I feel obliged to note that the trend of opinion in the community of outside anthrax investigation kibbitzers is running hard against me.
