Judge OKs releasing anthrax files

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A federal judge has approved the release of hundreds of pages of documents from the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five people and sickened more than a dozen, a court official said Wednesday.

The records include 14 search warrants, information used to request those warrants and summaries of what was found, the court official said. The official declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

The documents were expected to implicate Army biological weapons researcher Bruce Ivins in the anthrax attacks. Ivins spent more than 30 years as a civilian microbiologist at the Army's biodefense lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where he was trying to develop a better vaccine against the disease. A lawyer for Ivins said last week that his client was not involved in the attacks, and that the pressure of the investigation led to his death.
–From CNN's Kevin Bohn