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The anthrax letters. Should the case be closed?

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The Justice Department says Dr. Bruce Ivans at the issues, Americans care about most. The Justice

Department says Dr. Bruce Ivins was the only person with access to the strain of anthrax that

killed five and panicked the nation after September 11th. It claims FBI evidence would have proven

him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt if he'd lived long enough to go on trial instead of committing

suicide.

On to the point, is the case against Ivan's believable? Why did it take seven years?

If Ivan suffered from mental illness for so long, why was he working with deadly toxins in a government laboratory? On reporter's notebook later on, the mayor of Detroit will be spending

the night in jail.

Who's running the city?

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. The prime suspect in the anthrax

letters episode committed suicide, so he'll never be tried. But the Justice Department says

he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. On To the Point, what's the evidence? Is it certain

Dr. Bruce Evans acted alone, as the investigation made the country safer from biological terrorism?

On reporter's notebook uncertainty in Detroit today, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been sent to jail.

First, this story.

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