The lack of common sense comes from believing that they knew how to use gloves to handle the LETTERS but didn't know how to use gloves to handle the ENVELOPES. Does that make any sense at all?
Plus, the stamp on the only envelope I've seen was a SELF-ADHESIVE "Forever" stamp. So, there's no concern about leaving behind DNA in saliva. They just apparently couldn't understand how to use gloves to handle stamps, either.
Or the wipe down with furniture polish was for a totally different purpose, having NOTHING to do with fingerprints.
Both the glove point and the self-adhesive point seem very sound.
So you are absolutely correct. The furniture polish aspect is fascinating (to me and you).
It’s almost as if they wanted to point away from silica as being key to understanding the weaponization in Amerithrax.
Now returning to the subject of GMU and the threat of biological weapons,
a BBC interviewer explained:
“The private contractor companies linked to the military and jokingly referred to as “beltway bandits” because they’re sprinkled around the Washington beltway ring-road, is where individuals with the right mix of skills might be working. Some of these contractors are now known to have been involved in classified bio-defence projects. One of these secret projects, carried out in the Nevada desert, was part of a series of three In the first few days of September last year - immediately prior to the attacks of the 11th, the New York Times carried a major investigation which at any other time would have been a story of huge significance...It revealed three secret bio-defence projects at a time when the American people believed none was taking place. One - run by a contractor - Battelle - was to create genetically altered anthrax.”
GMU microbiology grad Al-Timimi, who was working with and had been taught by Bin Laden’s sheik, did mathematical support work for the Navy, while in the employ of Beltway contractor SRA International (which among other things does biodefense work). What did his work involve? (His field was genomics/bioinformatics).
When pressed by the interviewer, “Does it nag at you in the back of your mind that possibly you do know him?” Dr. Patrick reiterated: “Possibly, possibly, I could have talked to these people. But it would have been within the context of their having a need to know.” He explained: “ Most of my discussions about the biological problem has been in secure conferences and meetings, and involve people with need to know, with security clearance and what have you. I don’t talk about ‘how to’, I don’t get into ‘how to’ with many people, no people other than the fact that those who really have a need to know.”
Al-Timimi had a high security clearance for some of his work for the government. Why?
Proliferation of know-how serves to proliferate opportunities for access to that know-how.