takes this lead, where is this going to go, they take the leads, field them out to the different field offices and it is all case management. and that s one of the things the fbi does best. now, when we re looking at the pressure cooker and all of the frag and everything else along the crime scene, all of that is being taken down to the fbi explosives lab. they have explosives examiners who will take this, compare this with components of other bombs that have gone off in the united states and overseas. what a lot of people don t realize, a lot of the ed ordina that goes off as we re investigating in iraq and also afghanistan, a lot of that comes back to the fbi explosives lab to see if there is any link analysis between anything that may go off in the united states, overseas, also other allies, our intelligence agencies. they re talking to each other about the makeup of these bombs. you know, back in 2010, in july of 2010, an information bulletin
employee s hands. it actually went off after that employee tossed that envelope into a bin, and according to jeanne meserve, there are similar circumstances. does that mean that the envelope looked alike or it had a similar sort of fiery flare and sulfuric smell? don t know. jeanne is working on that. i want to bring back in, mike brooks, your backyard, washington, d.c. talking about what investigators will glean from the evidence from one of these envelopes. what they ll do is, take this take the evidence from yesterday and from today. send it down to the fbi lab in quantico, the explosives lab. explosives examiners will take a look at this. as we talked about, they ll be looking for hairs and fibers, and one of the last places they send this is for fingerprint evidence. they sent it late because that usually make as mess of the evidence because of the different dyes and things they use to try to lift any prints off of that. one of the other things, too. keep in mind, most governm