Not only do they have no explanation for the subtilus contamination, but it was genetically distinct and not located at USAMRIID.
QUESTION: And then along those lines, was the subtilus contamination that was in the post —
DR. MAJIDI: Yeah.
QUESTION: Is that found in any of the other — anything else?
DR. MAJIDI: No. Again, you know, the bacillus contamination showed up in one batch, not in the other one, and it really didn’t drive us any place specific.
QUESTION: It didn’t show up in any of the eight matches, any of those samples?
DR. MAJIDI: Pardon?
QUESTION: So the stuff from the letter that matched eight samples — none of those had bacillus —
DR. MAJIDI: No. No.
“Not only do they have no explanation for the subtilus contamination, but it was genetically distinct and not located at USAMRIID.”
The Press seems not to have picked up on the admitted fact that the anthrax in the first letters contained a “contaminant” not found in the sacred flask “controlled” by Ivans.