F.B.I. to Pay for Anthrax Inquiry Review

Source: NY Times

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has agreed to pay $879,550 to the National Academy of Sciences for a 15-month review of its scientific work on the anthrax investigation, academy officials said, but the review will not assess the bureau’s detective work or its conclusion that an Army microbiologist, Bruce E. Ivins, sent the deadly letters in 2001. The academy panel will review genetic fingerprinting that led agents to Dr. Ivins’s Maryland laboratory, as well as clues to how and where the anthrax was grown and dried. Some colleagues of Dr. Ivins, who killed himself in July, have expressed doubt that he mailed the anthrax.

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was the grade only available at the Maryland lab?

The results would only confirm the circumstantial evidence and would not confirm the conclusion?

Why pay for the review, it isn't like it will lead to any truths.