AP HEADLINE: "Answers in anthrax case may have died with suicide"

[Bluebear]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/anthrax_scientist_years_without_answers

So, when does American Idol start again?

[babylonsister]

1. How 'convenient'! nt

[Bluebear]

3. What an incurious, complacent, lazy mess this country has become.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Shhh!

I'm watching commercials for the Olympics.

[spanone]

4. like brian williams asked on nbc nightly news 'is this case closed?'

you bet it is

and bu$hco will take credit for solving the anthrax killer case

[redqueen]

6. Wow...

I'm surprised it was even put in the form of a question.

The wording in the AP's headline is what I expect.

[Bluebear]

8. Now there's a probing journalistic query. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. "Fall guy".

[redqueen]

7. Hey now... I like that show.

He did it at a hospital?

I somehow missed that detail before...

[Bluebear]

10. I do too...

but you and I manage to stay aware of the world too :toast:

[redqueen]

13. :)

But really... suicide in a hospital? How often does that happen?

[rzemanfl]

9. Take a mentally unstable guy, harass him for years, then when

he offs himself, pin the whole thing on him. I don't believe a bit of it.

[stevedeshazer]

11. Notice how it's always a suicide?

I think he was Baxterized. Knew too much.

[LostInAnomie]

12. That case died years ago.

Probably when Cheney licked the last stamp.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

14. There is one bizarre and freaky statement in that AP report.

"This past Tuesday, he committed suicide at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland."

AT?! Was he actually IN a hospital when he committed suicide? Is that even possible?

Edit - I see redqueen thinks it's weird too. How easy do you think it is to commit suicide in a hospital? Aren't the drugs tightly controlled? Aren't there monitors and nurses all over the place?

Either the AP story is really wrong or they are right and something is really wrong anyway.

[bemildred]

15. if only they could have found this guy before he "killed himself". nt

[UTUSN]

16. If they had focused on him so long, why couldn't they get "the answers" long before?!1

Why were they using him BOTH as an evaluator of their evidence AND as a target? Why was he continued on employment, or not suspended pending the completion of the investigation? What about the other 3 or 4 who supposedly were under suspicion.