Re: Olberman #126
One thing I am sure about.
There has been absolutely no pressure
on the FBI
to ‘close’ this case
before this administration leaves office.
http://www.gazette.net/stories/08142008/walknew191857_32465.shtml
Ivins’ colleagues remain skeptical
Aug. 6
by Keith L. Martin and Margarita Raycheva | Staff Writers
A day after the U.S. Justice Department released hundreds of pages of court documents detailing its case against Dr. Bruce Ivins, Dr. W. Russell Byrne sat in disbelief about the possible link between his friend and colleague and the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
“I am absolutely stunned at what they consider evidence,” said Byrne, who headed Ivins’ USAMRIID division from 1998 to 2000. “… Plus, all these e-mails. I knew [Ivins] was having a hard time in life, but I did not know this was the way it was.”
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Other anomalies include the fact Byrne said Ivins knew e-mails were not “private” and could be read by anyone. And, he argued, if the FBI had hairs from the Princeton, N.J. mailbox where the anthrax letters were mailed, why were they never compared with Ivins’ hair?
“I think [the public] is being taken advantage of because they don’t know the science … or know anything about USAMRIID,” Byrne said.
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Byrnes’ skepticism is matched by Dr. Meryl Nass, a Maine physician and expert on anthrax and bioterrorism who has testified before Congress. She met Ivins in 1991 and last exchanged correspondence with him six years ago.
Since the government’s case has been made public, Nass has posted several questions on her Web site – www.anthraxvaccine.org – and said the Justice Department’s case is not clear. The closest link the FBI found between Ivins and Princeton, she said, is a detail of Ivins’ alleged fascination with the Kappa Kappa Gama sorority, which has an office near the Princeton collection box.
“The profusion of non-evidentiary material is profound,” she said. “If the FBI is spending [pages] detailing his connection to a sorority … it is pointing that out because it doesn’t have a case … The FBI knows this case is too complex for the public to comprehend, that’s why this nonsense [about the sorority] is out there.”
Last two posts 1. Dr. Byrne asks why no tests were done on the mail box hairs, 2. Later story reveals the hairs didn’t match.
Which brings the bigger issue, why were the hairs mentioned the released papers at all? Or were they for a court warrant application and the inspectors misled the judge with innuendo tht the hairs were Ivins?