The FBI seems to have put together a preponderance of evidence linking Bruce Ivins to the anthrax mail attacks that killed five in September 2001. But Congress wants to know the process of the FBI’s  seven-year investigation and why the Bureau is so sure Ivins acted alone. Both the House and Senate judiciary committees have scheduled hearings for September, when lawmakers return to Washington.

Fueling skeptics’ fire is the fact that a hair sample from one of the mailboxes Ivins allegedly used to send the anthrax doesn’t match that of Ivins. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson also reports that the defense attorney for Ivins (who died from an apparent suicide last month) is asking how the suspect could get away with storing so much Anthrax.

It’s something of an American tradition to doubt the veracity of blockbuster FBI investigations. Hopefully a Congressional probe will look at a specific holes in the FBI case, instead of just broadly unloading on the agency.-MB

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