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Anthrax suspect passed 2 polygraphs
WND ^ | 8-7-08 | staff

Posted on 08/07/2008 1:29:33 PM PDT by Nachum

Casting further doubt on the FBI's anthrax case, accused government scientist Bruce Ivins passed two polygraph tests and a handwriting analysis comparing samples of his handwriting to writing contained in the anthrax letters, U.S. officials familiar with the investigation say.

The Justice Department yesterday closed the case, announcing the late "Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks."

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amerithrax; anthrax; bruceivins; passed; polygraphs; suspect; wingnutdaily
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1 posted on 08/07/2008 1:29:34 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

There’s a reason polygraph tests are not allowed in court.


2 posted on 08/07/2008 1:31:39 PM PDT by steveo (Hi mom!)
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To: Nachum

Both polygraphs and handwriting analysis are BS.


3 posted on 08/07/2008 1:32:03 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Nachum

Sociopaths can always pass polygraphs with flying colors!


4 posted on 08/07/2008 1:32:19 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: Nachum; TrebleRebel; jpl

“* No textile fibers were found in his office, residence or vehicles matching fibers found on the scotch tape used to seal the envelopes;”

That’s interesting, never heard of anything like that.

“* No pens were found matching the ink used to address the envelopes;”

So what, the letter writer is going to use something not traceable to him

“* Samples of his hair failed to match hair follicles found inside the Princeton, N.J., mailbox used to mail the letters.”

This is a weird one. The FBI mentions “4 hairs” in one of its papers. But so what? The box was tested months later, and why would the letter dropper leave hairs?


5 posted on 08/07/2008 1:36:16 PM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: Nachum

Does the story say whether the polygraph results were confirmed by tea leaf and goat entrail readings?


6 posted on 08/07/2008 1:38:15 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Shermy
No textile fibers were found in his office, residence or vehicles matching fibers found on the scotch tape used to seal the envelopes

Well, now we know that he doesn't still have all the same clothes he had seven years ago.

No pens were found matching the ink used to address the envelopes

And he doesn't have all his seven-year-old pens, either.

Well, apparently his mental illness was not of the "compulsive hoarder" variety....

Samples of his hair failed to match hair follicles found inside the Princeton, N.J., mailbox used to mail the letters.

The FBI is now investigating the speculative theory that more than one person may have used that mailbox during the days in question.

7 posted on 08/07/2008 1:42:30 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Shermy

The letter dropper would put (someone else’s) hairs in the envelope in order to direct attention away from himself.

I mailed a lot of bills off the other day. I sincerely doubt there is one hair in any of them, let alone four.


8 posted on 08/07/2008 1:43:13 PM PDT by Marie2 (Osama & Obama - both have friends who've bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: Nachum

Shame on all whom place blame on an American.

Where in the hell did he get weaponized anthrax?

Saddam did it.


9 posted on 08/07/2008 1:46:00 PM PDT by Blue State Insurgent
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To: Nachum

Clever is as ‘clever does’. . .


10 posted on 08/07/2008 1:46:19 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it damns us all. . .)
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To: Nachum

IIRC G. Gordon Liddy recounted in his autobiography how, following a period of intense headaches, he developed a second form of handwriting. So perhaps it’s possible for other somewhat nutty people to do the same. Ivins appears to possibly have been a genuine case of multiple personality disorder.


11 posted on 08/07/2008 1:47:49 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: Marie2

The hair story is just stupid. The FBI hinted at it, so I guess it’s fair game to assume it’s important, as this article does.


12 posted on 08/07/2008 1:48:55 PM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: MindBender26

Hey, watch who you’re calling a sociopath...


13 posted on 08/07/2008 1:52:39 PM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: Shermy

Maybe it wasn’t him...


14 posted on 08/07/2008 1:53:20 PM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: Nachum

How does the FBI explain the Florida media case and that one of the 911 perps visited the ER?


15 posted on 08/07/2008 2:04:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
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To: stuartcr

Juh tawkin ta ME ????

Ta ME????


16 posted on 08/07/2008 2:09:21 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: steve-b
Well, now we know that he doesn't still have all the same clothes he had seven years ago.

The investigators seemed to be making the case that he assembled these letters while alone in his lab at night. He would likely be wearing cleanroom garments from head to toe. He probably then put the envelopes into some sterile container until he got to the mailbox. If that is the case then I wouldn't imagine that there was much of anything on the tape and that very fact could be suspicious in itself and lead investigators to suspect a cleanroom environment.

One might even suppose that Ivins would have realized this and placed some threads on the tape as a red herring that would never trace back to him.

17 posted on 08/07/2008 2:09:25 PM PDT by Perchant
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To: Blue State Insurgent
Where in the hell did he get weaponized anthrax?

In the lab he was working in.
18 posted on 08/07/2008 2:14:28 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: steveo

The polygraph is useless with a true dedicated criminal/terrorist or anyone that understands the basic principle.
I passed to test during Correctional Officer training with deliberate incorrect answers (lies).
At least a 1/3 of the class was capable of this.


19 posted on 08/07/2008 2:28:09 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
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To: Nachum


Anthrax suspect passed 2 polygraphs

More smoke...to go along with no real explanations as to how Ivins,
alone, could make such a high-grade anthrax spore batch with characteristics
the FBI has said over the years were very sophisticated.

Ivins may have done it and even acted alone.
But the questions raised by some of his own co-workers really have
me wondering.
(See article in The Wall Street Journal Aug 5, by Richard Spertzel)


20 posted on 08/07/2008 2:38:07 PM PDT by VOA
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