Sentences with phrase «anthrax investigation»
Other stories have explored interrogation and torture, the anthrax investigation, the government's secret effort to reclassify historical documents and the explosion in federal contracting.
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The best part is that one of the physicians involved in the anthrax investigation was actually the City's health commissioner.
CDC's internal anthrax investigation concluded that minimizing the number of labs and staff at CDC working with select agents would improve safety.
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A long - awaited review of the scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks is finally getting off the ground.
The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) began looking into personnel reliability last fall after officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the 2001 anthrax letter attacks had been perpetrated by U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins.
After a seven - year investigation of the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, the FBI was preparing in July to charge a single scientist, Bruce Ivins of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, with the crimes.
The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.
FBI's investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in the United States was marred by weak scientific practices and analytical gaps, a report by Congress's watchdog agency has concluded.
The argument over the US anthrax attacks of 2001 looks set to continue, as politicians begin asking tough questions about the investigation.
Searching for new clues in its so - far fruitless hunt for the anthrax killer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recruited 32,238 potential new tipsters last week.
In response to a question by a committee member, he indicated that the review would help resolve confusion over questions such as the source of silicon detected in the anthrax powder, which in the early days of the investigation was ascribed to silica added to make the spores more easily dispersible.
Michael Mann, a paleoclimatologist, has been the subject of lawsuits, congressional investigations and an anthrax scare.