Ivins' lab deemed early on as contaminated

The Washington Times ^ | 8 August 2008 | Jerry Seper

[COBOL2Java]

Report finds lax Fort Detrick procedures

Just seven months after the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, the U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland where the accused killer, microbiologist Bruce E. Ivins, worked was described in a government report as a "rat's nest" that was contaminated with anthrax bacteria.

The highly redacted report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, said Suite B-3 in Building 1425 at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick not only was contaminated with anthrax in three locations but the bacteria had escaped from secure areas in the building to those that were unprotected.

Written by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the report said that while the Fort Detrick facility where the FBI said Mr. Ivins spent an inordinate amount of time alone and at night had comprehensive procedures that would protect a "great number of personnel from exposure" if implemented, there was no requirement for routine surveillance to check for contamination inside or outside the containment laboratories.

The 361-page report said that safety procedures at the facility and in individual laboratories were lax and inadequately documented; that safety supervision sometimes was carried out by junior personnel with inadequate training or survey instruments; and that exposures of dangerous bacteria at the lab, including anthrax, had not been adequately reported.

[Sacajaweau]

So deadly spores were in unprotected places and no one got sick..Uh huh

And were they the same as the "attack" spores?

And if I was going to be the attacker, I sure wouldn't be leaving stuff behind.

[ken21]

i don’t understand why all this stuff and threats are coming out now,

but beforehand they were after hatfill.

[lepton]

This seems to be interweaved with freaky alarmism of the “mercury in the Everglades” vein.

There are anthrax spores all over this planet...a few here, and a few there. There just usually aren’t enough in one place to detect or infect humans - or viably floating freely in the air.

[UCANSEE2]

Maybe President Bush started demanding the FBI give the public some answers, on the unclosed events in his Presidency.

So, since scientist A is no longer a credible suspect, scientist B got the tail stuck on his donkey. Unfortunately, the pin holding the tail hurt so much the donkey died. So, now it’s dead scientist B that did it.

This is all distraction,to hide the fact that sloppiness is tolerated at places like a bio-weapon research center. It apparently had more ‘foreigners’ working there or visiting, than Disney World.
It may have been Ivin’s lab in the report, but it doesn’t mean Ivin’s was the sloppy one. And it wasn’t just Ivin’s lab. And it may not have been just that one facility. That’s the real story contained in the article.

The condition of security procedures at these weapons labs, and the state of mind of the employees, which President Bush ended up getting thrown in his lap.... From Bill Clinton’s lap, which is where you just don’t want to be.

And BC had reduced funding to the military, causing reductions of staff (like security, or expensive investigations into allegations that some scientists were behaving like they were under stress).

[UCANSEE2]

“with freaky alarmism of the “mercury in the Everglades” vein.”

While one could not get rich mining mercury in the ‘glades’, one could get rich betting that with all the Anthrax being shipped to and from military labs and universities, that it wasn’t all that hard to get, if you really wanted it.

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(Fly on the wall)

University:”Yeah, UPS lost another one. Can you overnight another anthrax baggie?”

Deit-Lab: “No problem. I already had some extra bags weighed out”