[Allan]

This one almost made me laugh out loud:

“Burans also said
that high-speed mail processing machinery could have crushed the powder more finely —
evidenced by plumes that rose 30 feet above the floor at a postal annex in Washington.

On the other hand
he and the other scientists did not offer an exact explanation
of how Ivins was able to prepare the fluffy [sic]
dry
powdered anthrax.
Ivins
they said,
could have used a lab-issue drier called a lyophylizer,
but not necessarily.

...However it was done,
said Majidi,
“it would have been easy to make these samples at” Ft. Detrick, Md
(blah, blah, blah… OK you can stop reading now)

‘However it was done’
though it would have been easy
they’re not telling us
and they aren’t going to
because they don’t know.

The FBI got their marching orders:
This case is closed!

[jpl]

It seems as though the F.B.I. is now claiming for the first time that they were actually able to successfully reverse-engineer the powder themselves.

I don't believe them for a second, and I guarantee that they'll never demonstrate it to anyone.

[muawiyah]

Again, the FBI fails to ask an obvious question ~ to wit: Did the "attacker(s)" already know what the effect of postal processing machinery would be on envelopes full of anthrax?

Saddam Hussein had available to him half a dozen multi-position letter mail sorting machines to test what happens. I think, in fact, any potential terrorist with the means would want to know what those machines can do to letters with anthrax or other bio-chemical warfare agents if ony to see how long they'd last in the system.

Saddam got the machines from the Kuwait postal system. I provided a briefing to Kuwait postal officials and employees regarding the "way" these machines impacted expected mail handling several years before they bought the machines.

I somehow doubt Dr. Ivins had the slightest idea of what would happen. On the other hand, all the envelopes were totally covered, end to end, with package sealing tape as if the attacker(s) knew what postal processing machinery would do to them ~

The FBI is keeping something very securet or they're all dumb as boards and we need a NEW federal investigative agency to replace them.