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"You suggest that they may have vacuumed the first floor and emptied the bags on the third floor? Interesting. And that wouldn't be considered "speculation"? "

It's not speculation - it's simply a guess - just as they vaccumed the third floor first and changed bags on the first floor is another guess and an equally valid one.

The point is there are too many unknowns for you to reach the absurd conclusions you are reaching. You are grasping at conclsions where in reality you have absoltely no idea what events such as cleaning may have done to influence the data.

The data that we DO know is that Bob Stevens held a letter with a powder in it up close to his face on September 19. The color of that powder was consistent with anthrax (it wasn't white so it wasn't talcum powder). That's probably the first time in his twenty years at AMI that he ever held a letter containing powder up close to his face. He contracted anthrax 6 days later (although you prefer a later date by twisting the facts). Anthrax was detected in the immediate area around this - including ON THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD he was holding it above.

Only someone who is totally out of their mind or on drugs would fail to see the connection between the September 19 letter and Bob Stevens' death.

That means if you're not presently on drugs it is fair to conclude that you are out of your mind.

I feel in a good mood today, so why not start another page?

It's not speculation - it's simply a guess - just as they vaccumed the third floor first and changed bags on the first floor is another guess and an equally valid one.

So you don't speculate, you guess? Interesting.

I weigh evidence. The evidence is that there is very little contamination in the area where the J-Lo letter was opened and examined, none of the people besides Bob Stevens who examined the J-Lo letter got anthrax, and the J-Lo letter could not have been mailed at the same time as all the recovered anthrax letters. That's evidence. Those are known facts. Two solid items of evidence and one item of good circumstantial evidence.

You accuse me of speculation, but you suggest that the cleaning crew could have emptied the vacuum cleaner bags on the first floor or third floor to cause the floor tests to look like the J-Lo letter didn't contain anthrax.

I think it should be very clear to everyone who is speculating here and who is examining the evidence.