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...bioterrorism in the week that ricin was being mailed to the Senate majority leader. However vital the issues of war and homeland security, there was $805 million less for emergency workers, and 210,000 veterans could see their health benefits cut. All the police departments that have relied on FBI crime labs to analyze fingerprints or hair samples will now have...
...Qaeda's assault on the U.S. The likely perpetrator, many still believe, was a malevolent nerd with chemistry-lab expertise and a grudge against the government. But when traces of the biological toxin ricin showed up in Senator Bill Frist's mail room last week, the FBI and other agencies declared there was no evidence pointing to either a foreign culprit or a mad scientist. One possibility under examination: a good ole boy who knows his way around 18-wheelers, weigh stations and CB radios...
...trial and was expected to tell this version of the events to the jury, when Bacanovic's lawyer, Richard Strassberg, stunned the courtroom by calling for a mistrial. Strassberg said that at 10:15 the previous night the prosecution had belatedly faxed him a copy of an interview the FBI had conducted with Faneuil's former lawyer, Jeremiah Gutman, 80, which hinted at a different version of events. Gutman said he couldn't remember whom Faneuil had identified--Bacanovic or Waksal--as the one who had instructed him to pass on the tip to Stewart. Gutman's confusion raised doubts...
...criminal record. Then he put a copy of The Hulk up on the Web--two weeks before it opened in theaters. Within weeks, a million people had downloaded it; movie geeks had panned the film online based on Gonzalez's copy, which had unfinished special effects; and the FBI was looking for him. Gonzalez was sentenced to six months house arrest, three years of probation and a $7,000 fine. And so he became Hollywood's perpetrator poster boy, one of the few movie uploaders to be prosecuted in the U.S.--but definitely not the last...
...example, U.S. intelligence got word that terrorists might have targeted British Airways Flight 223--but only after it was on its way to Washington. Between 80 and 90 passenger names were then singled out for scrutiny because they matched or were similar to those on various watch lists, FBI officials tell TIME. As customs analysts frantically researched passenger backgrounds, U.S. fighter jets tailed the plane, intending to shoot it down if a suicide hijacker took control. After being held and questioned for several hours on a distant tarmac at Dulles International Airport, all 247 passen gers were cleared. --By Sally...