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In Anthrax Case, Hindsight Shifts View of Ivins
Actions to Aid Probe Appear Now As Cover-Up
WASHINGTON — One night in autumn 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the worst act of bioterrorism in its history, Bruce Ivins was alone in his cluttered Fort Detrick, Md., office, scrubbing phones, walls and furniture.
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Dr. Ivins, his colleagues said, argued that al Qaeda was responsible. “He was very passionate about this,” former boss Jeffrey Adamovicz said. “He was very agitated.” In these conversations, Dr. Ivins dwelled at one point on a purported link between Florida victim Robert Stevens, a photographer for American Media, and an apartment rented to 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta, Dr. Adamovicz said. (The FBI discounts that as an explanation.)
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That winter, the FBI asked Dr. Ivins to take his first and only lie-detector test, according to a law-enforcement official. The polygraph was part of the bureau’s vetting of investigators. The FBI hasn’t released the results. Dr. Ivins retained his role in the investigation.
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Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax
Washington Post ^ | Sunday, August 3, 2008;
Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 01:31:44 PM by Perdogg
For nearly seven years, scientist Bruce E. Ivins and a small circle of fellow anthrax specialists at Fort Detrick’s Army medical lab lived in a curious limbo: They served as occasional consultants for the FBI in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, yet they were all potential suspects.
Over lunch in the bacteriology division, nervous scientists would share stories about their latest unpleasant encounters with the FBI and ponder whether they should hire criminal defense lawyers, according to one of Ivins’s former supervisors. In tactics that the researchers considered heavy-handed and often threatening, they were interviewed and polygraphed as early as 2002, and reinterviewed numerous times. Their labs were searched, and their computers and equipment carted away.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-suspect1-2008aug01,0,1343109.story
The famous Los Angeles Times story from August 1 that started it all. Has the “He’s messy, he’s guilty” claim, and the infamous quotes from one of Ivins’ brothers, but the L.A. Times failed to mention the brother hadn’t spoken to Ivins in 23 years. FBI had to have fed the LA Times reporter with that brother, and not Ivins’ other brother.
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyid=78746
Talk Back: Do you believe Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax attacks? (August 13)
Interesting because it’s from the Frederick newspaper, where a reporter can do a “man on the street” poll and find someone who knew Hatfill.