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You've seen it . . .
A kid breaks something, and - not understanding how transparent his false stories will sound to an adult - gives a series of implausible, shifting explanations:
"There was an earthquake!"That's exactly how the FBI has been behaving in the anthrax "investigation" of Dr. Ivins.
[No there wasn't]
"The dog knocked it over!"
[The dog is at the vet]
"A big gust of wind blew it over!"
[The windows were closed]
"My little sister broke it!"
[She was outside]
Etc.
As one writer put it:
"After their operative theory couldn't even withstand the scrutiny of the DFHs in the world, they revised their theory.Like a kid making excuses, the FBI doesn't seem to realize how ridiculous its implausible, ever-shifting explanations sound to thinking adults.
***I'm most amused by the way they find evidence, claim it's significant, then discard it entirely once their theory falls apart. Just last week, the fact that Ivins had taken leave for the entire day before the anthrax was mailed was another smoking gun, proof that he had done the deed. But now that we DFHs have proved he couldn't have been mailing the anthrax at that time, then that piece of evidence is discarded entirely. It seems they don't want to entertain the possibility he was doing something else--perhaps meeting with someone, but not driving to Princeton. Similarly, lie detector tests were critical, until they discovered their main culprit passed his.
In other words, they're still making it up as they go along, and they still don't have a solid case that Ivins was the sole culprit.
