The Anthrax Files (2011)

Frontline: The Anthrax Files (2011)

Just after 9/11, as the US Congress was debating giving President Bush unprecedented powers to combat terrorism, envelopes carrying the deadly Anthrax bacteria were delivered to U.S. Senate offices… Five people were killed, many more infected and the nation was terrorized…. The FBI thought they had their man but after their chief suspect committed suicide, serious questions about the government’s case were raised…

“FRONTLINE, McClatchy and ProPublica have taken an in-depth look at the case against Ivins, conducting dozens of interviews and reviewing thousands of pages of FBI files. Much of the case remains unchallenged, notably the finding that the anthrax letters were mailed from Princeton, N.J., just steps from an office of the college sorority that Ivins was obsessed with for much of his adult life… But newly available documents and the accounts of Ivins’ former colleagues shed fresh light on the evidence and, while they don’t exonerate Ivins, are at odds with some of the science and circumstantial evidence that the government said would have convicted him of capital crimes. While prosecutors continue to vehemently defend their case, even some of the government’s science consultants wonder whether the real killer is still at large”… Frontline