[drzz]

1. FBI futile search at Fort Detrick http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE6DB133AF931A35754C0A9659C8B63

2. ABC reporter, Hatfill claiming he could prove Iraqi involvement in anthrax mailings http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/Hatfill116-2.pdf

3. UNSCOM Richard Spertzel to Laurie Mylroie : “Iraq has its dirty hands in this event” http://www.lauriemylroie.com/files/Spertzel_on_Shoham_Jacobsen2.htm

4. “Anthrax mailings in retrospect”, Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence, March 2007 issue
http://newsdetails.blogspot.com/2007/05/technical-intelligence-in-retrospect.html

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Hannity once mentioned that the handwriting on the anthrax letters was blocky and childlike. I hadn't heard anything lately about letter analysis. If he acted ‘alone’, then it had to be his handwriting, right?

[PaRepub07]

If former weapons inspector says that Ivins could not have made the weaponized anthrax by himself, or at the very least without someone else in on it, then I take him at his word.

He would be the one to know..

[wendy1946]

The story we’ve been reading is flagrant BS.

[srmorton]

The genetic technique that has been mentioned IS capable of pinpointing the source of the anthrax to a specific strain. I tend to believe that the specimen did come from Ivins'lab. The lypholizer he purchased could have easily converted a broth culture of the organism to the more easily dispersed spores. He had a vested interest in creating an "anthrax scare" so that he could keep getting the funding he was receiving for working on a new vaccine.

Whether he could have pulled this off on his own is much more problematic. He could have been just the source of the anthrax and been financially rewarded by those who actually did the "dirty work". If he did indeed commit suicide, guilt from knowing that five people died from exposure to the anthrax that he provided and/or the knowledge that he was being investigated and was about to be charged would have been reason enough for an unstable person to take his own life.

[reasonisfaith]

The Ivins “suicide” smelled rotten to me from the beginning.
Something about the way it’s reported—I had the same feeling when Dan Rather first mentioned the forged memo in September of 2004.