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View Larger Map A Hazmat team has responded to what’s being described as a suspicious letter opened at the Deptartment of Veterans Affairs, located at 810 Vermont Ave. NW. There is a large police and EMS presence extending around McPherson Square, Lafayette Square and the White House as a result of the investigation. The letter is reportedly being tested for signs of anthrax as a precautionary measure. A decontamination tent has been set up, and…

The AP has reported that Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) expressed skepticism over the FBI’s contention that Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax attacks. During a hearing on the matter in front of his committee today, Leahy, who was a target of the deadly attacks, told FBI Director Robert Mueller that he doesn’t think Ivins was the only person involved. “I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before…

The Washington Post has their lengthy report up on the evidence released by the FBI this afternoon against Bruce Ivins, the bioweapons researcher who killed himself last week after he had become the government’s main suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Some of the evidence the FBI shared with the public today included that Ivins sent emails with wording that was sometimes identical to the language used in the anthrax-laced letters, that he kept odd,…

Undated photo of Dr. Bruce Ivins, the biodefense researcher who died of an apparent suicide Tuesday in Frederick, Md. U.S. prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty for Ivins. (AP Photo/Frederick News Post) More on the recent life of anthrax investigation target Bruce Ivins from the New York Times: “Maryland court documents show he had been under psychiatric treatment and had been served with a restraining…

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a scientist who helped the FBI investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks has committed suicide in Maryland, soon after learning he was about to be charged with the very attacks he had been helping to investigate. Bruce Ivins, 62, who worked at the U.S. government’s biodefense research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md. for 18 years, had just been informed that he was about to be prosecuted by the…