On Sunday March 11, 2007 CBS "60 Minutes" reviewed the anthrax investigation and the lawsuit (against the government) by the one "person of interest" leaked by the FBI and DOJ to reporters. The report indicated that there were perhaps a dozen other "persons of interest" whose identities had never been leaked, and that physical evidence of actual tampering at Ft. Dietrich Maryland did not exist.
There was an interesting story in The Weekly Standard in April 2002, link here.
The 60 Minutes report also included a story about the difficulty in bringing Iraqi translators and friends to the United States to protect them. There was a third story about a mine-accident deceased coal miner's wife in Harlan County, Kentucky (which I visited in a tour of strip mines in 1972), and about the threats her family received as she became outspoken about mine safety.
But the most shocking story of all was Andy Rooney's segment. Admitting that he never had thought he would say this, he called for conscription (the draft) to support any war that the United States, through its democracy, decides to engage in. He talked a lot about the "moral waivers" being given by the military to find new recruits. Ironically, these waivers don't seem to revoke the "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays.
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