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"<p>The threat of a veto to Congress' intelligence spending bill for  this fiscal year by President Barack Obama's administration could potentially  halt further investigations into the 2001 anthrax mailings case.<br />\n<br />\nObama's  administration has raised concerns with an amendment by U.S. Rep. Roscoe  Bartlett, a Republican from western Maryland, to the intelligence spending bill  to investigate the handling of the Bruce Ivins anthrax case by the  FBI.<br />\n<br />\nThe anthrax amendment was adopted by the House of Representatives  last month following its proposal by Bartlett and Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., the  representative of the district where the anthrax letters were  mailed.<br />\n<br />\nBartlett and Holt's amendment seeks to make the intelligence  community's inspector general investigate intelligence suggesting foreign  influence in the anthrax attacks was overlooked.<br />\n<br />\n&quot;Many critical questions  in this case remain unanswered, and there are many reasons why there is not, nor  ever has been, public confidence in the investigation or the FBI's conclusions,  precisely because it was botched at multiple points over more than eight years,&quot;  Holt wrote in a letter last week, The Frederick News-Post Online reports.  &quot;Indeed, opposing an independent examination of any aspect of the investigation  will only fuel the public's belief that the FBI's case could not hold up in  court, and that in fact the real killer may still be at large<br />\n<br />\nThe  amendment was never adopted by the Senate and the investigation would not take  place unless the Senate, during a conference committee to hammer out the  differences between the two bills, agrees to it.<br />\n<br />\nThose negotiations,  however, are slow going at best, with a March 15 letter by Office of Management  and Budget Director Peter Orszag to four congressional leaders noting that their  version of the budget bill &quot;still contain several provisions of serious concern  to the intelligence community,&quot; The Frederick News-Post Online  reports.<br />\n<br />\n&quot;The FBI is confident that the attacks were planned and  committed by Dr. Bruce Ivins, acting alone,&quot; the letter said. &quot;The commencement  of a fresh investigation would undermine public confidence in the criminal  investigation and unfairly cast doubt on its  conclusions.&quot;</p>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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