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FBI utilizó táctica agresivas en punta de prueba del ántrax
Miércoles 6 de agosto de 2008 Ap | WASHINGTON - antes de la matanza misma la semana pasada, amigos dichos Ivins de Bruce del científico del ejército que los agentes del gobierno hubieran acechado a lo y a su familia por meses, hubieran ofrecido a su hijo $2.5 millones a la rata él hacia fuera y hubieran intentado dar vuelta a su hija hospitalizada contra él con las fotografías de las víctimas muertas del ántrax. La presión en Ivins era extrema, una estrategia de riesgo elevado que ha fallado el FBI antes. El gobierno fue determinado para encontrar al bandido en los ataques 2001 del ántrax; era demasiados años sin una solución al caso que dio una sacudida eléctrica y aterrorizó una nación post-9/11. La cosa pasada el FBI necesitado era otra vergu|enza. El Overreaching dañó la reputación del FBI en las investigaciones del alto-perfil: la punta de prueba olímpica centenaria del bombardeo del parque que acusa falso a Richard Jewell; el hurto de secretos nucleares y procesamiento botched de las heces de Wen Ho del científico; y, en esta misma punta de prueba del ántrax, el mancharse de un hombre inocente - colega Steven Hatfill de Ivins'. En el caso actual, Ivins se quejó privado de que los agentes de FBI habían ofrecido a su hijo, Andy, $2.5 millones, más “el coche de los deportes de su opción” tarde el año pasado si él volcaría evidencia que implica a su padre en los ataques del ántrax, según un E.E.U.U. anteriores científico que se describió como amigo de Ivins. Ivins también dijo hija del Ivins enfrentado FBI la', Amanda, con las fotografías de las víctimas de los ataques del ántrax y le dijo que, “el es lo que hizo su padre,” según el científico, que habló solamente en la condición del anonimato porque su conversación era confidencial. El Ivins dicho científico fue encolerizado por las acciones alegadas del FBI, que él incluido dicho después familia de Ivins' en compras dispara. El abogado Barry Coburn de Washington, que representa a Amanda Ivins, declinó comentar respecto a la investigación. Un abogado para Andy Ivins también declinó comentar. El FBI declinó describir sus técnicas investigadoras de Ivins. FBI Juan oficial Molinero dijo eso “qué hemos visto que el excedente el pasado que pocos días han sido una mezcla de accesos incorrectos de la información parcial se mezcló con la información inexacta y después dibujado dentro de conclusiones infundadas. Ninguno de ése sirve a las víctimas, a sus familias o a público.” The FBI “always moves aggressively to get to the bottom of the facts, but that does not include mistreatment of anybody and I don’t know of any case where that’s happened,” said former FBI deputy director Weldon Kennedy, who was with the bureau for 34 years. “That doesn’t mean that from time to time people don’t make mistakes,” he added. Dr. W. Russell Byrne, a friend and former supervisor of Ivins at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., said he had heard from other Ivins associates that investigators were going after Ivins’ daughter. But Byrne said those conversations were always short because people were afraid to talk. “The FBI had asked everybody to sign these nondisclosure things,” Byrne said. “They didn’t want to run afoul of the FBI.” Byrne, who retired from the lab four years ago, said FBI agents interviewed him seven to 12 times since the investigation began — and he got off easy. “I think I’m the only person at USAMRIID who didn’t get polygraphed,” he said. Byrne said he was told by people who had recently worked with Ivins that the investigation had taken an emotional toll on the researcher. “One person said he’d sit at his desk and weep,” he said. Questions about the FBI’s conduct come as the government takes steps that could signal an end to its investigation. On Wednesday, FBI officials plan to begin briefing family members of victims in the 2001 attacks. The government is expected to declare the case solved but will keep it open for now, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. Several legal and investigatory matters need to be wrapped up before the case can officially be closed, they said. Some questions may be answered when documents related to the case are released, as soon as Wednesday. For others, the answers may be incomplete, even bizarre. Some may simply never be answered. It is unclear how the FBI eliminated as suspects others in the lab who had access to the anthrax. It’s not clear what, if any, evidence bolsters the theory that the attacks may have been a twisted effort to test a cure for the toxin. Investigators also can’t place Ivins in Princeton, N.J., when the letters were mailed from a mailbox there. Richard Schuler, attorney for anthrax victim Robert Stevens’ widow, Maureen Stevens, said his client will attend Wednesday’s FBI briefing with a list of questions. “No. 1 is, ‘Did Bruce Ivins mail the anthrax that killed Robert Stevens?’” Schuler said, adding, “I’ve got healthy skepticism.” Critics of the bureau in and out of government say that in major cases, like the anthrax investigation, it can be difficult for the bureau to stop once it embarks on a single-minded pursuit of a suspect, with any internal dissenters shut out as disloyal subordinates. Before the FBI focused on Ivins, its sights were set on Hatfill, whose career as a bioscientist was ruined after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft named him a “person of interest” in the probe. Hatfill sued the agency, which recently agreed to pay Hatfill nearly $6 million to settle the lawsuit. Complaints that the FBI behaved too aggressively conflict with its straight-laced, crime-fighting image of starched agents hunting terrorists. During its focus on Hatfill, the FBI conducted what became known as “bumper lock surveillance,” in which investigators trailed Hatfill so closely that he accused agents of running over his foot with their surveillance vehicle. FBI agents showed up once to videotape Hatfill in a hotel hallway in Tyson’s Corner, Va., when Hatfill was meeting with a prospective employer, according to FBI depositions filed in Hatfill’s lawsuit against the government. He didn’t get the job. One of the FBI agents who helped run the anthrax investigation, Robert Roth, said FBI Director Robert Mueller had expressed frustration with the pace of the investigation. He also acknowledged that, under FBI guidelines, targets of surveillance aren’t supposed to know they’re being followed. “Generally, it’s supposed to be covert,” Roth told lawyers in Hatfill’s lawsuit. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park bombing that dragged Jewell into the limelight, the security guard became the focus of the FBI probe for three months, after initially being hailed as a hero for moving people away from the bomb before it exploded. The bomber turned out to be anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph, who also planted three other bombs in the Atlanta area and in Birmingham, Ala. Those explosives killed a police officer, maimed a nurse and injured several other people. In another case, the FBI used as evidence the secrets that a person tells a therapist. In the Wen Ho Lee case, Lee became the focus of a federal probe into how China may have obtained classified nuclear warhead blueprints. Prosecutors eventually charged him only with mishandling nuclear data, and held him for nine months. In what amounted to a collapse of the government’s case, prosecutors agreed to a plea bargain in which Lee pleaded guilty to one of 59 counts. In 2004, the FBI wrongly arrested lawyer Brandon Mayfield after the Madrid terrorist bombings, due to a misidentified fingerprint. The Justice Department’s internal watchdog faulted the bureau for sloppy work. Spanish authorities had doubted the validity of the fingerprint match, but the U.S. government initiated a lengthy investigation, eventually settling with Mayfield for $2 million. Have Your Say: FBI used aggressive tactics in anthrax probe Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm and is filed under War & Terrorism News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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