Posted on 08/06/2008 12:22:29 PM PDT by PurpleMan
Army scientist Bruce Ivins had custody of highly purified anthrax spores with "certain genetic mutations identical" to the poison that killed five and rattled the nation in 2001, according to documents unsealed Wednesday in the government's investigation.
Also, Ivins was unable to give investigators "an adequate explanation for his late laboratory work hours around the time of" the attacks, and he apparently sought to mislead investigators on the case, according to an affidavit filed by one government investigator.
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The eveidence mounts
It all hinges on recently-improved DNA analysis of the Athrax spores in question. I gather that investigators have only recently been able to positively trace the anthrax strain in question back to him.
Ooops.
Thought I searched.
Sounds like yet another rush to judgment.
Funy how they can get a man dead to rights and convicted....after he’s dead!
The FBI found a guy with problems, concocted a motive, and started pounding away.
Odds are good the perpetrators are well protected.
Watching the meeting with the families today I got the distinct impression that USPS has an interest in continuing to keep hidden the fact that tens, if not hundreds of thousands of contaminated mail trays were distributed around the system even before the first case of anthrax was discovered. They want that fact hidden because they did not immediately direct the destruction by fire of all the potentially contaminated MTE (mail transport equipment), and took a calculated risk that downstream collateral damage would be minimal.
FBI seems to be going along with this as long as USPS supports their idea that Ivins mailed contaminated letters at Princeton.
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