"I'm not telling you that right now the bureau is focused on someone or not focused on someone," Chertoff said. "There are in my experience a lot of instances where we might know or have a good reason to believe who committed a criminal act, but we may not be able to prove it. So when you say something is not solved, you should not assume from the fact that there is no criminal prosecution we don't have a good idea of what we think happened."That "someone" he's talking about is the now nearly-forgotten anthrax guy, remember him? The one who killed (or so it's believed) five people five years ago by sending anthrax through the mail?
The [FBI] has assigned fresh leadership to the case -- Special Agent Ed Montooth -- and retains a full-time investigative force of 17 agents and 10 postal inspectors. "There is confidence the case will be solved," said Joseph Persichini Jr., acting assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office.Exactly. J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list to hype the reputation of the bureau by, once the capture of an especially notorious criminal was imminent, putting the guy on the top of the list before the arrest was made. Think that's what might be going on here?
If they're going to get any mileage out of nailing the guy they'll first have to remind people who he is.
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