It was clear they obsessed on the domestic theory from the beginning. Maybe they were right. But if only recent testing proved Ft Detrick, why the focus before that?
I think after they identified the particular type of anthrax strain involved...it came back to the front door of the US facility. Unless someone can show one of these guys giving the sample to the Muslim guys (which hasn’t been proved in any forum yet)...then we are stuck with a scenario which none of us like. It was our own people who did this to us.
I don’t yet agree on the entire scenario presented...and wait still for more details on Bruce Ivins. After the Hatfield episode...I am slow to believe in any quick solution. But the one fact that puzzles me is that that the brother hasn’t talked to this guy in years. I’ve seen cases like this...but it typically involved a total nutcase....which makes me wonder just how competent that Ivins was, and who vouched for his security clearance over the past decade. If he did represent a threat to co-workers...this is a insignificant indicator of a guy you simply cannot trust in such an environment.
Several years ago, at a US military contingency site...a Navy O-4 arrived and over a period of two months....was deemed a total nutcase. None of the officers would do anything about the guy. Finally, a senior AF enlisted guy started documenting the daily tirades and examples of this officer. After two weeks of collection...he handed it over to the local mental health clinic. They arrived the next day with two big guys and escorted the O-4 to a aircraft and he was flown to a stateside facility.
Most of us will just keep accepting deranged folks working with us, and never demanding action. At some point...we may all be fooling ourselves over our safety.