The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson gives a round-up of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s day on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee. Mueller resisted calls for a Congressional inquiry into the FBI’s all but closed investigation into the 2001 mail delivery of anthrax that killed five and sickened 17. Mueller did, though, promise that the National Academies of Science would check the DNA evidence that has linked the anthrax spores to a lone perpetrator, former Army bioweapons researcher Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide in July. Muller also discussed now powers given to FBI agents to conduct surveillance without clear evidence of a crime.

As this is probably the last time the FBI Director testifies during the Bush administration, it’s interesting that the same FBI-related issues– anthrax and expanded powers for counterterrorism– that were biggest in the Bush administration’s first year remain the biggest questions now.-MB

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