WASHINGTON (AP) - Brother, can you spare a billion? More like $700 billion, to be precise. ...more

October 5, 2008

"Whatever you can say about the Soviet bioweapons scientists," a Bush administration official once told me, "they never killed anyone." ...more

August 21, 2008

The evidence amassed by FBI investigators against Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

After four years pursuing one former Army scientist on a costly false trail, FBI agents investigating the deadly anthrax letters of 2001 finally zeroed in last year on a different suspect: another Army scientist from the same biodefense research center at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md. ...more

August 2, 2008