Posted on 08/07/2008 11:30:43 PM PDT by CutePuppy
Interestingly, NPR seems to have extensive coverage of Ivins case, there are a lot of sidebars and links on the site. Other links, which have decent summations of events and [some ridiculous] accusations serving as FBI's claims of "motives" or "proof" so far:
U.S. Judge Unseals Documents In Anthrax Case - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93305949
Anthrax Suspect's Abortion Stance Eyed As Motive - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93385756
why was a seriously troubled man allowed a security clearance?
Previously...
He wasn't "seriously troubled" until after they gave it to him.
nice work.
Thanks the invisible hand.
It’s good to know that anyone can open the links and read the documents if they so desire to.
Especially this one, where there is such barrage of innuendoe being unleashed.
Evidently that was a lot of anthrax in the letters....How did Ivins weaponize it (dry it)? Ive been told its not an easy thing to do
I agree.
It would be interesting to pull up all the innuendo and statements by the FBI during the Hatfill did it part of the investigation that eventually cost the taxpayers more than $4.5 million dollars not including the cost of draining ponds all over the place. How much leaking to the media did the FBI do in those days when they were trying to convince us that they had the right guy?
b) He and NPR may be on the same "side" in this case, but I doubt that it's for the same reasons. After all, this is "Bush administration's" FBI and DoJ. NPR does have the capability of creating good investigative reports, like some "Frontline" episodes which underwent prior bias-ectomy.
Nice blog... I'd call it a Death by Harassment and Innuendo. Wonder if anyone (or a number of people) in FBI or DOJ is or will be claiming a "credit" for cracking the case and catching the "mass murderer". It's a sure resume enhancement, isn't it, at least in terms of "creativity"?
Anthrax Linked To Lab
According to one source who has been briefed on the investigation, Ivins was one of fewer than a dozen people with access to the particular supply of anthrax they now believe was used in the 2001 attacks. In the seven years since the attacks, technology has improved and, sources say, investigators are now able to tie the anthrax bacteria to the Department of Defense lab in Maryland where the scientist worked.
Investigators now believe the anthrax used in the attacks was actually a mixture of spores with slight genetic variations, which gives it a specific signature and, more important, links it almost exclusively to the lab where Ivins worked.
One source familiar with the case against Ivins says the FBI has amassed an exhaustive report of times Ivins entered and left the lab in the days and weeks before the deadly letters were sent. The source says the logs show Ivins using the lab where the anthrax was present at times that could be viewed as suspicious, including late at night when he was there alone.
Ivins also had access to a sophisticated freeze-dryer, which could have been used to turn the wet bacteria into a dry form. Ivins' co-worker Jeff Adamovicz says he remembers the unit, called a lyopholizer, in the hallway and says it was used to dry protein samples for vaccine work. Adamovicz said the dryer was signed out to Ivins. Adamovicz remembers FBI agents testing the dryer, but they never hauled it away, a sign that it most likely came up clean. An additional piece of equipment would also have been required to mill the dried spores into a powdered form.
You’d have to ask the FBI that question petitfour.
Here is their website if you want to contact them:
Thanks
Well, it ain’t like the FBI has screwed up an investigation before...
So beloved his brother hadn't spoken to him in over 20 years.
Bear in mind that some of the same folks that were behind the attack on Hatfill are the ones covering for Ivins now.
We can choose or lose our friends and associates, we can't choose our relatives.
We don't know his brother, but if they were estranged from each other for so long, neither did he know Bruce Ivins that his colleagues knew.
Ivin’s lawyer is also the lawyer for the Thomas Tamm, the suspected leaker of the NSA ‘eavesdropping’ program ; that leak has done a lot of damage to our ability to gain time-critical information from terrorist communications abroad and as it happens, has crippled us in acquiring the hard evidence that enables us to get convictions without relying on purely circumstantial evidence.
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