[EdLake]

Justice Department wrote: " Ed, who has never set foot in the lab, relies solely on Internet publications as “proof” of Ivin’s guilt."

I don't know what you mean by "Internet publications," but I don't relay on the media for ANYTHING regarding Ivins. I rely on FBI documents and discussions with scientists involved in the investigation - and on conversations with people who knew Ivins.

Before Ivins' suicide, I thought the anthrax mailer was a scientist in New Jersey. But, I always said (and I stated in my book) that the FBI might have a mountain of evidence pointing to someone else that I didn't know anything about. That turned out to be the case.

From the time I first heard of Ivins in August of 2008, I've been studying every document I can find about him and about the FBI's evidence. The media hasn't been of much help at all.

The statement by Ivins' therapist in the court document isn't "hearsay." It's not a rumor or something heard from some unknown person. It's a statement by a member of a group about what a leader of the group told her. I don't think that would qualify as "hearsay."

There appear to be a lot of documents from Ivins' psychiatrists that are still "under seal" due to doctor/patient confidentiality. They probably would have been used in court, since doctor/patient confidentiality doesn't apply when the patient threatens to kill people (as Ivins did). There are even indications from confidential sources I cannot identify that Ivins confessed to his psychiatrist that he was the anthrax mailer.

Yes, it took me a long time to respond to your post because I had to write a Sunday morning comment for my web site.

And now I've got to go back to other things before I'll find time to post here again.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

[Justice Department]

“Before Ivins’ suicide, I thought the anthrax mailer was a scientist in New Jersey”

And you were right!

(By the way, your “response and run” comments are ludicrous.)

[Justice Department]

“Before Ivins’ suicide, I thought the anthrax mailer was a scientist in New Jersey”

And you were right!

(By the way, your “response and run” comments are ludicrous.)

[Justice Department]

“It's a statement by a member of a group about what a leader of the group told her. I don't think that would qualify as “hearsay.”

Ed, hearsay is information gathered by one person from another concerning some event , condition, or thing of which the first person had no direct experience

“There are even indications from confidential sources I cannot identify that Ivins confessed to his psychiatrist that he was the anthrax mailer.”

That is utter nonsense!