Ask Bruce Ivins. (Or, well… you can’t…) Five people died from the 2001 anthrax attacks, but they could never find a perpetrator. The prominent people didn’t die, but they came close to being exposed.
Bruce Ivins was railroaded by Robert fucking Meuller no less until he committed suicide and years later it would be proven, without a shadow of a doubt I might add, that the facility Ivins worked in did not have the capability to produce anthrax as pure as that used in the attacks.
When it’s high profile, they will find someone to pin it on. It’s anyone’s guess if that person is the actual culprit or just someone that the cops thought they could pin it on.
A salient point and having lived through that period and remember how shithouse panicked everyone was about the anthrax attacks because of how quickly they followed 9/11 (just a week later), I can see there being a lot of impetus for them to find someone, anyone to pin it on so they could calm the US public and make them feel at ease.
Ask Bruce Ivins. (Or, well… you can’t…) Five people died from the 2001 anthrax attacks, but they could never find a perpetrator. The prominent people didn’t die, but they came close to being exposed.
Bruce Ivins was railroaded by Robert fucking Meuller no less until he committed suicide and years later it would be proven, without a shadow of a doubt I might add, that the facility Ivins worked in did not have the capability to produce anthrax as pure as that used in the attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins#Death
When it’s high profile, they will find someone to pin it on. It’s anyone’s guess if that person is the actual culprit or just someone that the cops thought they could pin it on.
I’d say not just cops, it’s more which power brokers are involved and need this contained.
Cops are low-influence actors in such cases. They’re as railroaded as the accused.
A salient point and having lived through that period and remember how shithouse panicked everyone was about the anthrax attacks because of how quickly they followed 9/11 (just a week later), I can see there being a lot of impetus for them to find someone, anyone to pin it on so they could calm the US public and make them feel at ease.