The outrageous thing is the U S Attorney and FBI coming out and trashing a dead guy who cannot defend himself. Up front they concede it was a highly unusual step to speak about a case where the target had died and there was not a conviction or even charges filed BUT...we want to put the case in its best light now because the good Doctor cannot show how badly they bungled this investigation. The government can crush anyone. Ask Richard Jewell. These people are gutless wonders.
Some survivors of the attacks and members of Congress said they were persuaded by the evidence against Dr. Ivins, laid out in hundreds of pages of applications for search warrants unsealed for the first time. But some independent scientists, friends and colleagues of Dr. Ivins remained skeptical, noting that officials admitted that more than 100 people had access to the supply of anthrax that matched the powder in the letters.
“The outrageous thing is the U S Attorney and FBI coming out and trashing a dead guy who cannot defend himself. “
Oh, get over it. He used fake screen names on the internet! He engaged in battles over wikipedia entries! To top it all off, sometimes the diabolical fiend would ask them to email him before they changed his edit back — all part of a sinister plot to distract them from correcting the entry. He read Camus! He worked late after 9/11 even though he was just in military biodefense. The only reason they didn’t suspect Ed is he never works past 5 p.m. and he doesn’t read literature. The evidence, crediting the sampling, points to a match at one of the eight labs downstream from him. Oh, and let’s not forget their Greendale speculation. Treble Rebel, assuming it was silicon (and not silica) — just for the sake of discussion — what was the source of silicon? Assuming there was subtilus contamination, what was the source given that they genetically typed it? Is Venable going to come out with a rebuttal on the merits? It was inappropriate for the newspapers to be editorializing without hearing from the other side on the merits. I’m on vacation but I hope someone compiles his wikipedia entries chronologically. And get the Greendale specialist from the Washington periodical on their incredibly stupid Greendale speculation. Venable needs to bring suit under the civil rights statute and take civil discovery of all the evidence to include all emails he wrote, including from September 2001.